Catullus 22

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Catullus 22 (Wikisource translation) by Catullus

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Choliambic.

Literal English Translation	Original Latin	Line
That Suffenus of yours, Varus, whom you have known well, that man is attractive and well spoken and sophisticated, and the same man makes the most verses by far. I think either ten thousand or more have been written by him, nor have they, as it [usually] happens, been fully written on the reused manuscripts:[but] royal papers, new books, new knobs on cylinder, the red straps of skin, ruled [lined] with lead and all things smoothed with pumice. When you read these, that handsome and sophisticated Suffenus seems a goat milker or a ditch digger again: he shrinks back and changes so much. We wonder how can this be? He who just now was seeming a jester or somebody rather knowing in this matter, the same person is duller than a dull countryside, as soon as he touches poetry, the same person is not ever as equally happy as when he writes poetry: he rejoices in himself and admires himself so much. Surely we're all deceived the same way, nor is there anyone whom you are not able to see Suffenus in some way. To each has been assigned his own flaw; but we do not see the part of the pack on our back.	Suffenus iste, Vare, quem probe nosti, homo est venustus et dicax et urbanus, idemque longe plurimos facit versus. Puto esse ego illi milia aut decem aut plura perscripta, nec sic, ut fit, in palimpsesto relata: cartae regiae, novi libri, novi umbilici, lora rubra, membranae, derecta plumbo et pumice omnia aequata. Haec cum legas tu, bellus ille et urbanus suffenus unus caprimulgus aut fossor rursus videtur: tantum abhorret ac mutat. Hoc quid putemus esse? Qui modo scurra aut si quid hac re scitius videbatur, idem infaceto est infacetior rure, simul poemata attigit, neque idem umquam aeque est beatus ac poema cum scribit: tam gaudet in se tamque se ipse miratur. Nimirum idem omnes fallimur, neque est quisquam quem non in aliqua re videre Suffenum possis. Suus cuique attributus est error; sed non videmus manticae quod tergo est.	22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 22.6 22.7 22.8 22.9 22.10 22.11 22.12 22.13 22.14 22.15 22.16 22.17 22.18 22.19 22.20 22.21

AP Latin Syllabus
Vergil: Aeneid Book 1 (lines 1-519), Book 2 (lines 1-56, 199-297, 469-566, 735-804), Book 4 (lines 1-448, 642-705), Book 6 (lines 1-211, 450-476, 847-901), Book 10 (lines 420-509), Book 12 (lines 791-842, 887-952)
Catullus: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, (6), 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14a, 16, (21), 22, 30, 31, (34), 35, 36, 39,40, 43, 44, 45, 46, 49, 50, 51, 60, 64, 65, 68, 69, 70, 72, 75, 76, 77, 84, 85, 86, 87, 96, 101, 109, 116.
Cicero: Pro Archia Poeta; De Amicitia 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104; Pro Caelio 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 41, 42, 43, 47, 48, 49, 50, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 66, 67, 74, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80
Horace: Sermones 1.9; Odes 1.1, 1.5, 1.9, 1.11, 1.13, 1.22, 1.23, 1.24, 1.25, 1.37, 1.38, 2.3, 2.7, 2.10, 2.14, 3.1, 3.9, 3.13, 3.30, 4.7
Ovid: Daphne and Apollo, Pyramus and Thisbe, Daedalus and Icarus, Baucis and Philemon, Pygmalion; Amores 1.1, (1.2), 1.3, (1.4), (1.5), (1.6), (1.7), 1.9, 1.11, 1.12, (1.14), (1.15), 3.15