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CV.
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus · Gaius Valerius Catullus
CV.
Mentula conatur Pipleum scandere montem: Musae furcillis praecipitem eiciunt.
CV.
ON MAMURRA.
Mentula fain would ascend Pipléan mountain up-mounting: Pitch him the Muses down headlong wi' forklets a-hurled.
Mentula presumes the Pimplean mount to scale: the Muses with their pitchforks chuck him headlong down.
CVI.
Cum puero bello praeconem qui videt esse, Quid credat, nisi se vendere discupere?
CVI.
THE AUCTIONEER AND THE FAIR BOY.
When with a pretty-faced boy we see one playing the Crier, What can we wot except longs he for selling the same?
When with a comely lad a crier is seen to be, what may be thought save that he longs to sell himself.
CVII.
Siquoi quid cupido optantique obtigit umquam Insperanti, hoc est gratum animo proprie. Quare hoc est gratum nobisque est carius auro, Quod te restituis, Lesbia, mi cupido, Restituis cupido atque insperanti ipsa refers te. 5 Nobis o lucem candidiore nota! Quis me uno vivit felicior, aut magis hac res Optandas vita dicere quis poterit?