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, is attractive and well-spoken and sophisticated, and the same man makes the most verses by far. I think that either ten thousand or more have been written by him, nor have they, as it is custom, been written on palimpsests: [but] royal papers, new books, new scroll-knobs, red leather-straps, skins, aligned with lead and all things having been smoothed with pumice. When you read these, that handsome and sophisticated Suffenus is seen as a goat-milker or a digger again: he shrinks back and changes by so much. We think, why is this? He who just now was seen as a jester by manner or somebody rather knowing about this thing, the same one is duller than a dull countryside, as soon as he touched poems, the same one is not ever as equally happy as when he writes poetry: he rejoices about himself and admires himself so much. Evidently we all are deceived the same way, nor is there anyone whom you are not able to see Suffenus in some way. To each their own error has been assigned; but we do not see the knapsack which is 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, 52, 53, 56, 58, 60, 62, 64, 65, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 79, 81, 84, 85, 86, 87, 92, 93, 96, 101, 107, 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