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.
Da mi basìa mille, deinde centum,
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum
deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.
Dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,
conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,
aut nequis malus invidere possit,
cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love,
and let us judge all the rumors of the old men
to be worth just one penny!
The suns are able to fall and rise:
When that brief light has fallen for us,
we must sleep a never ending night.
Give me a thousand kisses, then another hundred,
then another thousand, then a second hundred,
then yet another thousand more, then another hundred.
Then, when we have made many thousands,
we will mix them all up so that we don't know,
and so that no one can be jealous of us when he finds out
how many kisses we have shared.
Love really doesn't know time.....these words could be easily been written today... this thread of emotions is what makes History that continuum of connections that never stops and always leads us to the beginning of all.
We are made of the same fabric of History, after all.
Catullo works his magic for me anytme.
When i read him i am always transported to my first high school years.
Like many other extremely romantic girls, i got completely entrapped with his poetry......We were these totally love nuts 14-15 y-old group of nerds. It had been easy for us to fall in love with him when we started to study the Latin literature and the so called "Lyrics" movement.
I remember i got so taken that i started to write Catullo's passionate verses on the love notes i used to hand out to my the boyfriend.
He most likely was completely ignoring them....more important for him was knowing if he would have had the opportunity to fond my bra that day....lol.....aghhww, boys...
What do you read now that has the power to immediately brings you back to your youth, your school age, your first crushes?
I have a long list of associations but i will tell them along the way....
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