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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Catullus 5 and 7 Check

ID and Parse 10 verbs from each and translate each poem


CATULLUS 5
Let us live and let us love, my Lesbia,
and let us estimate all the rumors of 
serious old men at one penny!
The suns are only able to fall and rise:
For us, when our brief light falls, 
night is perpetual in sleep.
Give to me a thousand kisses, then one hundred,
then another thousand, then a second hundred,
then all the time another thousand, then one hundred, 
then, we will make with many thousands,
we will confuse that man, let us not know,
but he is not able to cast an evil eye on us,
while knowing the number of our kisses.


1. vivamus-1st person plural present active subjunctive of "vivere" meaning "to live"
2. amemus-1st person plural present active subjunctive of "amare" meaning "to love"
3. aestimemus-1st person plural present active subjunctive of "aestimare" meaning "to value"
4. occidere-present active infinitive meaning "to fall"
5. redire-present active infinitive meaning "to return"
6. possunt-3rd person plural present active indicative of "posse" meaning "to be able"
7. occidit-3rd person singular present active indicative of "occidere" meaning "to fall"
8. est-3rd person singular present active indicative of "esse" meaning "to be"
9. da-2nd person singular present active imperative of "dare" meaning "to give"
10. fecerimus-1st person plural perfect active indicative of "facere" meaning "to make"


CATULLUS 7
You ask, how much of your kissing,
Lesbia, may be enough and more for me.
The great number of Libyan sands in 
which lie asafoetida in Cyrene
between the oracle of sweltering Jupiter
and the holy grave of old Battus;
or as many as the stars, when night is silent,
they see the furtive love of humans:
then your many kisses to kiss
may be enough and more for wild Catullus,
which neither will satisfy the curiosity to count up,
nor may evil speech be able to bewitch.


1. quaeris-2nd person singular present active indicative of "quaerare" meaning "to ask" 
2. sint-3rd person plural present active subjunctive of "esse" meaning "to be"
3. iacet-3rd person singular present active indicative of "iacere" meaning "to lie"
4. tacet-3rd person singular present active indicative of "tacere" meaning "to be silent"
5. uident-3rd person plural present active indicative of "videre" meaning "to see"
6. basiare-present active infinitive meaning "to kiss"
7. est-3rd person singular present active indicative of "esse" meaning "to be"
8. pernumerare-present active infinitive meaning "to count up"
9. possint-3rd person plural present active subjunctive of "posse" meaning "to be able"
10. fascinare-present active infinitive meaning "to bewitch"

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