Catullus 31, 35, 36

Question 1

Paene insularum, Sirmio, insularumque ocelle

Answer 1

Sirmio, little jewel of peninsulas and islands,

Question 2

quascumque in liquentibus stagnis

marique vasto fert uterque Neptunus,

Answer 2

whatever (islands) and whatever each Neptune carries

on clear pools and on the vast sea,

Question 3

quam te libenter quamque laetus inviso,

Answer 3

how gladly and how happily I look upon you,

Question 4

vix mi ipse credens Thuniam atque Bithunos

liquisse campos et videre te in tuto.

Answer 4

I myself scarcely believing myself that I have left behind

Thynian and Bithynian fields and that I see you in safety.

Question 5

o quid solutis est beatius curis,

Answer 5

O what is happier than freed/released cares,

Question 6

cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino

Answer 6

when the mind puts down its burden,

Question 7

labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum,

Answer 7

and when we, tired with foreign labor, come to our own home/household gods

Question 8

desideratoque acquiescimus lecto?

Answer 8

we rest in our desired bed?

Question 9

hoc est quod unum est pro laboribus tantis.

Answer 9

This is what alone is in compensation for labors so great.

Question 10

salve, o venusta Sirmio, atque ero gaude

gaudente,

Answer 10

Hello, o attractive Sirmio, and rejoice in your rejoicing master;

Question 11

vosque, o Lydiae lacus undae,

Answer 11

And you, o Lydian waves of the lake,

Question 12

ridete quidquid est domi cachinnorum.

Answer 12

laugh at whatever of laughter there is at home.

Question 13

Poetae tenero, meo sodali,

velim Caecilio, papyre, dicas

Answer 13

Papyrus, I would like that you

say to the tender poet, my comrade Caecilius,

Question 14

Veronam veniat, Noui relinquens

Comi moenia Lariumque litus.

Answer 14

that he come to Verona, leaving behind

the walls of New Como and the Larian shore

Question 15

nam quasdam volo cogitationes

amici accipiat sui meique.

Answer 15

for I want him to accept/receive

the certain thoughts of his friend and (of) mine

Question 16

quare, si sapiet, viam vorabit,

Answer 16

therefore if he is wise, he will devour the road

Question 17

quamvis candida milies puella

euntem revocet,

Answer 17

although a dazzling girl calls him back

as he goes a thousand times,

Question 18

manusque collo

ambas iniciens roget morari.

Answer 18

and flinging both hands around his neck

asks him to stay/linger.

Question 19

quae nunc, si mihi vera nuntiantur,

Answer 19

She now, if true things are reported to me,

Question 20

illum deperit impotente amore.

Answer 20

perishes for him with passionate love.

Question 21

nam quo tempore legit incohatam

Dindymi dominam,

Answer 21

For at the time when she read the

“Mistress of Dindymon”, having been started,

Question 22

ex eo misellae

ignes interiorem edunt medullam.

Answer 22

since that time

fires eat the inner marrow of the poor little wretch.

Question 23

ignosco tibi, Sapphica puella

musa doctior;

Answer 23

I forgive you, Sapphic girl

more learned than the muse;

Question 24

est enim venuste

Magna Caecilio incohata Mater.

Answer 24

and for the

Great Mother has been started charmingly by Caecilius.

Question 25

Annales Volusi, cacata carta,

Answer 25

Annales of Volusius, shitty sheets/poopy paper,

Question 26

votum soluite pro mea puella.

Answer 26

release a vow for my girl

Question 27

nam sanctae Veneri Cupidinique | vovit,

Answer 27

for she vowed to sacred Venus and Cupid,

Question 28

si sibi restitutus essem

Answer 28

that if I had been restored

Question 29

desissemque truces vibrare iambos,

Answer 29

and if I had ceased to brandish my savage iambs

Question 30

electissima pessimi poetae | scripta tardipedi deo daturam

Answer 30

she would give the choicest writings of the | worst poet to the slow footed god

Question 31

infelicibus ustulanda lignis.

Answer 31

to be burned with unlucky wood.

Question 32

et hoc pessima se puella vidit

Answer 32

And the worst girl saw that she

Question 33

iocose lepide vovere divis.

Answer 33

vowed to the gods charmingly and playfully.

Question 34

nunc o caeruleo creata ponto,

Answer 34

Now o one created from the blue-black sea,

Question 35

quae sanctum Idalium Vriosque apertos

Answer 35

you who dwell in sacred Idalium and open Urium

Question 36

quaeque Ancona Cnidumque harundinosam

Answer 36

and you who dwell in Ancona and full of reeds Cnidus

Question 37

colis quaeque Amathunta quaeque Golgos

Answer 37

and Amathunta and Golgos

Question 38

quaeque Durrachium Hadriae tabernam,

Answer 38

and you who dwell in Durrachium, the marketplace of the Adriatic

Question 39

acceptum face redditumque votum,

Answer 39

make the vow accepted and fulfilled,

Question 40

si non illepidum neque invenustum est.

Answer 40

if it is not uncharming nor is unattractive

Question 41

at vos interea venite in ignem,

Answer 41

and you meanwhile come in flames

Question 42

pleni ruris et inficetiarum.

Answer 42

full of countryside and courseness

Question 43

annales Volusi, cacata carta.

Answer 43

annales of Vouluisis, crapped on paper.