Sweeter than lambs on festals slain, Than kids snatched from their foe. The slaves at rest, the mansion's pride, - With mind on farming bent; And so called all his money in, Which all next day he — lent. LESBIA. CATULLUS. ILLE mi par esse deo videtur Dulce ridentem, misero quod omnis Lesbi aspexi nihil est super mi. Lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus Otium Catulle tibi molestum est: LESBIA. He seems to me to equal the gods, Who sits in the presence, and now and then looks When I hear your sweet laugh, O Lesbia dear, Of my senses I'm wholly bereft ; And when once I have looked on your face so fair, Of me there's not any thing left. But my tongue grows dumb, and a subtle flame My ears both ring with a noiseless sound, 'Tis leisure Catullus, that troubles you, man ; In leisure you frolic and sing: 'Tis idleness ruins, as nothing else can, Full many a rich city and king. AD FABULLUM. CATULLUS. CENABIS bene mi Fabulle apud me Paucis, si tibi dii favent diebus, Si tecum attuleris bonam atque magnam Et vino et sale et omnibus cachinnis. TO FABULLUS. You shall dine very well, Fabullus, with me, Wine and salt and a pretty girl and leave not behind With merry jokes. If these you provide By Venus, and Cupid, who followed her car; Which, when you have smelled, more sweet than the rose, The gods you will entreat, Fabullus, my friend, That you may become one enormous nose. ΧΟ. ΕΥΡΙΠΙΔΟΥ ΕΚΑΒΗ. 906-953. σὺ μὲν, ὦ πατρὶς Ιλιάς, τῶν ἀπορθήτων πόλις οὐκέτι λέξει τοῖον Ἑλλήνων νέφος αμφί σε κρύπτει ἀπὸ δὲ στεφάναν κέκαρσαι μεσονύκτιος αλλύμαν, ἦμος ἐκ δείπνων ὕπνος ἡδὺς ἐπ ̓ ὄσσοις σκίδναται, μολπάν δ' απο καὶ χοροποιών πόσις ἐν θαλάμοις ἔκειτο, ξυστὸν δ' ἐπὶ πασσάλω, ναύταν οὐκέθ' ὁρῶν ὅμιλον στρ. α ́. ἀντ. α'. ἐγὼ δὲ πλόκαμον ἀναδέτοις στρ. β'. μίτραισιν ἐρρυθμιζόμαν χρυσέων ἐνόπτρων λεύσσουσ ̓ ἀτέρμονας· εἰς αὐγὰς, ἀνὰ δὲ κέλαδος ἔμολε πόλιν· κέλευσμα δ ̓ ἦν κατ' ἄστυ Τροίας τόδ'. ὦ Ιλιάδα σκοπιάν πέρσαντες ἡξετ' οἴκους; λέχη δὲ φίλια μονόπεπλος λιπουσα, Δωρὶς ὡς κόρα, σεμνὰν προσίζουσ' οὐκ ἤνυσ' Ἄρτεμιν ἡ τλάμων· ἀντ. β ́. ἄγομαι δὲ θανόντ' ἰδοῦσ ̓ ἀκοίταν τὸν ἐμὸν ἅλιον ἐπὶ πέλαγος, πόλιν τ' ἀποσκοποῦσ ̓, ἐπεὶ νόστιμον ναῦς ἐκινησεν πόδα και μ' ἀπό γας ὥρισεν Ἰλιάδος, τάλαιν', ἀπεῖπον ἄλγει, τὰν τοῖν Διοσκόροιν Ἑλέναν κάσιν Ἰδαῖόν τε βούταν αἰνόπαριν κατάρᾳ διδοῦσ ̓, ἐπεί με γᾶς ἐκ πατρῴας ἀπώλεσεν ἐξῴκισέν τ' οἴκων γάμος, οὐ γάμος, ἀλλ' ἀλάσ τορός τις οἰζύς· ἂν μήτε πέλαγος ἅλιον ἀπαγάςοι πάλιν, μήτε πατρῷον ἵκοιτ' ἐς οἶκον. ἐπῳδ. |