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This reading of Catullus XIIII was made by Sarah Ifft, a student at Swarthmore College, PA, as part of a course called "Love and Hatred in Catullus", using Daniel Garrison's text (The Student's Catullus, University of Oklahoma Publications, 2004). These audio files were kindly supplied by John Bauschatz, with the student's permission.



Ni te plus oculis meis amarem,
iucundissime Calve, munere isto
odissem te odio Vatiniano:
nam quid feci ego quidve sum locutus,
cur me tot male perderes poetis?
isti di mala multa dent clienti
qui tantum tibi misit impiorum.
quod si, ut suspicor, hoc novum ac repertum
munus dat tibi Sulla litterator,
non est mi male, sed bene ac beate,
quod non dispereunt tui labores.
di magni, horribilem et sacrum libellum,
quem tu scilicet ad tuum Catullum
misti, continuo ut die periret,
Saturnalibus, optimo dierum!
non, non hoc tibi, false, sic abibit:
nam, si luxerit, ad librariorum
curram scrinia, Caesios, Aquinos,
Suffenum, omnia colligam venena,
ac te his suppliciis remunerabor.
vos hinc interea valete, abite
illuc unde malum pedem attulistis,
saecli incommoda, pessimi poetae.