Gaius Valerius Catullus citáty
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Gaius Valerius Catullus
Datum narození: 84 př. n. l.
Datum úmrtí: 54 př. n. l.
Další jména: Catullus Gaius Valerius, Catullus, Гай Валерий Катулл
Gaius Valerius Catullus byl římský básník. Pocházel z veronské aristokratické rodiny, v jejímž domě se zastavil dokonce Gaius Iulius Caesar. Catullus náležel do skupiny neoteriků a orientoval se především na tvorbu helénistického básníka Kallimacha. Jeho carmina m.j. zhudebnil Carl Orff
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Citáty Gaius Valerius Catullus
„Těžké je skoncovat naráz s láskou, jež trvala dlouho.“
DIFFICILE EST LONGUM SUBITO DEPONERE AMOREM
„Žádná žena ať nevěří mužovým přísahám.“
Varianta: Žádná žena ať nevěří mužovým přísahám.
„Zahálka i krále i kdysi šťastná zhubila města.“
OTIUM ET REGES PRIUS ET BEATAS PERDIDIT URBES
„Nic není tak hloupé jako hloupý smích.“
RISU INEPTO RES INEPTIOR NULLA EST
„Co říká žena toužícímu milenci, může se napsat do větru a prudké vody.“
MULIER CUPIDO QUOD DICIT AMANTI, IN VENTO ET RAPIDA SCRIBERE OPORTET AQUA
„Idleness ere now has ruined both kings and wealthy cities.“
Otium et reges prius et beatas
perdidit urbes.
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
LI, last lines
Carmina
„Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.“
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus<br/>rumoresque senum severiorum<br/>omnes unius aestimemus assis
soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
V, lines 1–6
Thomas Campion's translation:
My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love;
And though the sager sort our deeds reprove,
Let us not weigh them: Heaven's great lamps do dive
Into their west, and straight again revive,
But, soon as once set is our little light,
Then must we sleep one ever-during night.
From A Book of Airs (1601)
Carmina
Kontext: Let us live, my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.
„It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-standing love.“
Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem.
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
LXXVI, line 13
Carmina
„There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.“
Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
XXXIX, line 16
Carmina
„All right and wrong, confounded in impious madness, turned from us the righteous will of the gods.“
Omnia fanda nefanda malo permixta furore
iustificam nobis mentem avertere deorum.
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
LXIV
Carmina
„To this point is my mind reduced by your fault, Lesbia, and has so ruined itself by its own devotion, that now it can neither wish you well though you should become the best of women, nor cease to love you though you do the worst that can be done.“
Huc est mens deducta tua mea, Lesbia, culpa
atque ita se officio perdidit ipsa suo,
ut iam nec bene velle queat tibi, si optima fias,
nec desistere amare, omnia si facias.
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
LXXV, lines 1–4
Carmina
„What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.“
Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti
in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti
in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.
LXX, lines 3–4. Compare Keats' epitaph: "Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
Carmina
„I hate and love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it, and I am in torment.“
Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
LXXXV, lines 1–2
Carmina
„You ask how many kissings of you, Lesbia, are enough for me and more than enough?“
Quaeris, quot mihi basiationes
tuae, Lesbia, sint satis superque?
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
VII, lines 1–2
Carmina
„If a man can take any pleasure in recalling the thought of kindnesses done.“
Siqua recordanti benefacta priora voluptas
Est homini.
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
LXXVI, lines 1–2
Carmina
„If anything ever happened to any one who eagerly longed and never hoped, that is a true pleasure to the mind.“
Si quicquam cupido optantique optigit umquam
insperanti, hoc est gratum animo proprie.
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
CVII, lines 1–2
Carmina
