CATULLUS'S RETURN HOME TO THE PENINSULA OF SIRMIO. CARMEN XXXI. O BEST of all the scatter'd spots that lie PENINSULARUM, Sirmio, insularumque Scarce able to believe my journey o'er, And that these eyes behold thee safe once more! Hail, lovely Sirmio! Hail, paternal soil! Joy, my bright waters, joy; your master's come! Laugh, every dimple on the cheek of home! Vix mi ipse credens Thyniam atque Bithynos O quid solutis est beatius curis, Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino Hoc est quod unum est pro laboribus tantis. Ridete, quidquid est domi cachinnorum! CATULLUS TO CORNIFICIUS. CARMEN XXXVIII. SICK, Cornificius, is thy friend, Sick to the heart; and sees no end Of wretched thoughts, that gath'ring fast And yet you never come and bring— You vex me:-this, to love like mine? Full as the tears of poor Simonides. MALE est, Cornifici, tuo Catullo, Male est mehercule, et laboriose, Et magis magis in dies et horas: Quem tu-quod minimum facillimumque est→ Qua solatus es adlocutione? Irascor tibi:-sic meos amores? Paulum quid lubet adlocutionis, Moestius lacrimis Simonideis. ACME AND SEPTIMIUS, OR THE ENTIRE AFFECTION. FROM CATULLUS.-CARMEN XLV. 'OH, Acme love!' Septimius cried, As on his lap he held his bride, If all my heart is not for thee, And doats not on thee desperately, And if it doat not more and more, As desperate heart ne'er did before, ACMEN Septimius, suos amores, Quantum qui pote plurimum perire, |