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If anyone can translate this for me or point me in the direction of an online Latin-to-English translator I'd appreciate it


da mi basia mille, deinde centum



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Da mi basia mille, deinde centum, Dein mille altera, dein secunda centum, Deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum. [Give me a thousand kisses, thena hundred, then another thousand, then a second hundred, then yet another thousand, then a hundred.] Catullus Carmina, v
I googled it

Don't skip the opening lines though, IMO they're the best -
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
rumoresque senum severiorum
omnes unius aestimemus assis
soles occidere et redire possunt
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux
nox est perpetua una dormienda
(let us live, my Lesbia, and also let us love, and let us value all the rumors of the old men as less than one penny. The sun may set and rise again but light is given to us briefly and then we must sleep a perpetual night)

It's always rather reminded me of "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time" in terms of its underlying message - life is short, why wait? Ah, saucy Catullus. But a lovely poem all around.

It's worth finding a good English translation of the Carmina if you don't have Latin (if you do, Garrison's Student's Guide is the best, IMO), but skip over the Loeb Classics version, which simply omits translations or mis-translates anything they thought was unfit for the eyes of anyone who lacked Latin - meaning half the book, since Catullus is quite, erm, free with his words.

-Molly
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That was fast, thank you both very much


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LoL, something I understand with my mediocre Latin skills!:%)

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