Poems

Final

Petit Gemellus nūptiās Marōnillae… (Maronilla)

Gemellus seeks marriage to Maronilla …

…et cupit et īnstat et precātur et dōnat. … (Maronilla)

… and desires it, presses for it, prays for it, and offers marriage. …

…Adeōne pulchra est? … (Maronilla)

… Is she that beautiful? …

… Immo, foedius nīl est. … (Maronilla)

… No, nothing is uglier. …

… Quid ergō in illā petitur et placet? Tussit! (Maronilla)

… What therefore in her is sought and is pleasing? She coughs!

Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plūra quae legis hīc; … (Martial)

There are good things, there are some mediocre things, there are many bad things that you read here; …

… ; aliter nōn fit, Avīte, liber. (Martial)

… ; it doesn’t happen otherwise, Avitus, the book.

Ōdī et amō! … (Love)

I hate and I love! …

… Quārē id faciam fortasse requīris. … (Love)

… Perhaps you ask why I do it. …

… Nescio, sed fierī sentiō et excrucior. (Love)

… I don’t know, but I feel it happening and I am tormented.

Sunt quidam qui me dicant non esse poetam; … (Lucan)

There are certain people who say that I am not a poet; …

… sed qui me vendit bibliopola putat. (Lucan)

… but the bookseller who sells me thinks that I am.