Translation:Catullus 73

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Catullus 73
by Catullus, translated from Latin by Wikisource

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"A bitter epigram about personal betrayal, a theme to which the poet returns in poem 77 (cf. also poem 30). In this poem the ungrateful friend is unnamed." (Garrison, 2004). Elegiac couplets.

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Literal English Translation	Original Latin	Line
Cease to want to earn well in any respect from anyone or to think that anyone is able to become grateful. All things are ungrateful, to have acted kindly is not beneficial at all, on the contrary it tires and it hurts more, As it is to me, whom no one distresses more seriously nor more painfully, Than he who holds me as his one and only friend.	Dēsine dē quōquam quicquam bene velle merērī aut aliquem fierī posse putāre pium. Omnia sunt ingrāta, nihil fēcisse benignē prōdest, immō etiam taedet obestque magis; ut mihi, quem nēmō gravius nec acerbius urget, quam modo quī me ūnum atque ūnicum amīcum habuit.	73.1 73.2 73.3 73.4 73.5 73.6

v t e AP Latin Syllabus
Virgil	Aeneid Book 1 (lines 1–578) Book 2 (lines 1–56, 199–297, 469–620, 735–804) Book 4 (lines 1–448, 642–705) Book 6 (lines 1–211, 295–332, 384–425, 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 9 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 83 84 85 86 87 92 93 94 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
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
Caesar	Gallic War 1.1–7 4.24–36 5.24–48 6.13–20

Translation:Catullus 73

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