I know I haven't posted for most of summer, but there has been so much drama with my Catullus. We went back and forth constantly, but it was pretty much the same thing every time. He was jealous and i wanted independence. I think I'm ready to be with him now though! He's currently the only man I'm seeing and I've felt better than I have in a while. He just wrote me this poem!
SI quicquam cupido optantique optigit umquam
insperanti, hoc est gratum animo proprie.
quare hoc est gratum nobis quoque carius auro
quod te restituis, Lesbia, mi cupido.
restituis cupido atque insperanti, ipsa refers te
nobis. o lucem candidiore nota!
quis me uno uiuit felicior aut magis hac est
optandus uita dicere quis poterit?
If anything ever occurred to anyone who desired or longed for
not expecting, this is especially satisfying to the spirit
Therefore this is pleasing to me more than precious gold
that you have restore, Lesbia, my desire
you restore to yourself this unexpected desire, bringing yourself to me
us. O familiar radiant life!
Who lives more happily than I alone, or who will be able
to say that these things are to be hoped for more than this life?
Isn't he wonderful? I can't believe that I ever rejected him for that dirty Ignatius!
Will we last this time? Only time will tell.....
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Catullus- I'm really glad that we've gotten all our pettiness behind us
ReplyDeleteLesbia- me too. I wish we could always have this "beginning of a relationship" feeling
ReplyDeleteCatullus- we'll just have to figure it out as we go along
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