PRAELUSIO : EIS AIONA!      Together: Eis aiona! Forever!   tui sum! I am yours!   eis aiona! Forever!      Together: Tui sum I am yours   o mea vita you are my life   eis aiona forever   tui sum! I am yours!   eis aiona! forever!      Young fellows: Tu mihi cara, You are dear to me   mi cara amicula, you are my dear beloved   corculum es! you're my heart's delight!   Girls: corculum es   Girls: dic mi te me amare! (?) tell me you love me!   Fellows: O tue oculi, Oh, your eyes   ocelli lucidi, (?) your shinning orbs    fulgurant, they are sparkling    efferunt me velut specula. they reflect me like a mirror   Girls: specula, specula, mirror, mirror,    tu mihi specula? are you my mirror?   Fellows: O tua blandula, blanda oh, charming, alluring    blandicula, tua labella. and kindly speaking your lips   Girls: cave, cavete! beware, beware everybody!   Fellows: ad ludum polectant.    Girls: cave, cavete! cavete! beware, beware everybody!    Fellows: O tua lingula usque perniciter your tounge ever swiftly it darts   vibrans ut vipera. like a serpent   Girls: cavete, cave meam viperam, beware everybody,beware of my serpent    nisi te mordet. lest it bite you   Fellows: morde me! bite me!   Girls: basia me! kiss me!    Together: ah! ah!   Fellows: O tuae mammulae. ah, your little breasts    Girls: mammulae. little breasts   Fellows: dulciter turgidae, gemina poma! sweetly swollen, twin apples   Together: ah! ah!   Fellows: mea manus est cupida, my hands are longing   Fellow: O vos papillae horridulae! oh, your savage, pointedd nipples!    Fellows: mea manus est cupida, my hands are longing   illas prensare. to grasp them   Girls: suave, suave lenire. it's delightful, delightful to soothe them   Fellows: illas prensare, vehementer prensare. to grasp them, to grasp them firmly    Together: ha! ha!   Girls: O tua mentula. Oh, your penis   Fellows: mentula. penis   Girls: cupide saliens. longing eagerly   Fellows: penipeniculus. little penis   Girls: velus pisciculus. like a little fish   Fellows: is qui desiderat tuam fonticulam. it longs for your little fountain   Together: ah! ah!   Girls: mea manus est cupida. my hands are longing    Girl: coda, codicula, avida! penis, your little penis is eager    Girls: mea manus est cupida illam captare. my hand is longing to capture it   Fellows: petulanti manicula! naughty little hands!   Girls: illam captare. to capture it   Fellows: tu es Venus, Venus es! you are Venus, Venus you are!   Girls: O me felicem! oh, how happy I am   Fellows: in te habitant omnia gaudia, in you dwells all joy,   omnes dulcedeines, all bliss   omnes voluptas. all passion   Fellows: in te, in tuo ingente amplexu in you, in your embrance   tota est mihi vita. lies the whole of mylife   Girls: O me felicem! oh, how happy I am!   Together: eis aiona! forever!      Old men: eis aiona! forever!   O res ridicula! how absurd!   immensa stultitia. that is utterly stupid   nihil durare potest nothing can endure    tempore perpetuo. throughout time everlastingly   cum bene Sol nituit, once the Sun shone brightly   redditur Oceano. it sets in the Ocean    decrescit Phoebe, the Moon wanes   quam modo plena fuit, how full it was a short while ago   venerum feritas saepe fit aura levia. love's tempest often becomes a gentle breeze   tempus amoris cubiculum non est the time for love is not in the bedroom   sublata lucerna because the lamp has been taken away    nulla est fides, there is no trust    perfida omnia sunt. everything is treacherous   O vos brutos, oh, you are dolts    vos studidos, you are stupid   vos stolidos! you are so dull!   One old man: Lanternari, tene scalam! latern-bearer, hold the ladder!   Old men: audite ac videte! listen and see!   Catulli carmina. Catullus' poems   Together: audiamus! we listen!