Lesbia, come, let us live and love, and be
deaf to the vile jabber of the ugly old fools,
the sun may come up each day but when our
star is out…our night, it shall last forever and
give me a thousand kisses and a hundred more
a thousand more again, and another hundred,
another thousand, and again a hundred more,
as we kiss these passionate thousands let
us lose track; in our oblivion, we will avoid
the watchful eyes of stupid, evil peasants
hungry to figure out
how many kisses we have kissed.
Written by Catullus
Translated from the Latin by Michael G. Donkin
https://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/latin/eleven-poems-of-catullus/
My Cheeseseller loves Catullus, because he’s usually very very rude and it was OK to read that in Latin Classes at school! I picked a clean one…..
In my fifth form year there was massive excitement when someone put out the word that Ovid’s Metamorphoses was very …. to read.It was too.
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I can only read in translation — I’m told the original Latin can be very rude!
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I’m sure it would have been very rude !!
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I have found a very new blog by a mother trying to help her eight year old dyslexic child. Dealing With Dyslexia by Tiffany Hackendorn. We have exchanged a few comments already.
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Thanks, it’s an interesting blog.
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I remember reading this in Latin Three as part of my BA Degree at Adelaide Uni. We studied the poems of Catullus. This was my favourite. :)
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:)
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