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, Catullus Gaius Valerius, 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.“
Originál: (la) 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.“
Originál: (la) 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.“
Originál: (la) MULIER CUPIDO QUOD DICIT AMANTI, IN VENTO ET RAPIDA SCRIBERE OPORTET AQUA
„Idleness ere now has ruined both kings and wealthy cities.“
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
LI, last lines
Carmina
Originál: (la) Otium et reges prius et beatas
perdidit urbes.
„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.“
— 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
Originál: (la) 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.
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.
„If I have led a pure life.“
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
LXXVI, line 19
Carmina
Originál: (la) Si vitam puriter egi.
„Now he goes along the dark road, thither whence they say no one returns.“
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
III, lines 11–12
Carmina
Originál: (la) Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum
illuc, unde negant redire quemquam.
„Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anyone can ever become grateful.“
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
LXXIII, lines 1–2
Carmina
Originál: (la) Desine de quoquam quicquam bene velle mereri,
Aut aliquem fieri posse putare pium.
„What he himself is, whether he is or is not, he does not know so much as this.“
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
XVII, line 22
Carmina
Originál: (la) Ipse qui sit, utrum sit an non sit, id quoque nescit.
„You ask how many kissings of you, Lesbia, are enough for me and more than enough?“
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
VII, lines 1–2
Carmina
Originál: (la) Quaeris, quot mihi basiationes
tuae, Lesbia, sint satis superque?
„If anything ever happened to any one who eagerly longed and never hoped, that is a true pleasure to the mind.“
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
CVII, lines 1–2
Carmina
Originál: (la) Si quicquam cupido optantique optigit umquam
insperanti, hoc est gratum animo proprie.
„Henceforth let no woman believe a man's oath, let none believe that a man's speeches can be trustworthy. They, while their mind desires something and longs eagerly to gain it, nothing fear to swear, nothing spare to promise; but as soon as the lust of their greedy mind is satisfied, they fear not then their words, they heed not their perjuries.“
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
LXIV
Carmina
Originál: (la) Nunc iam nulla viro iuranti femina credat,
nulla viri speret sermones esse fideles;
quis dum aliquid cupiens animus praegestit apisci,
nil metuunt iurare, nihil promittere parcunt:
sed simul ac cupidae mentis satiata libido est,
dicta nihil metuere, nihil periuria curant.
„Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then another thousand, then a second hundred, then yet another thousand, then a hundred.“
— Gaio Valerio Catullo, list of poems by Catullus
V, lines 8–7
Carmina
Originál: (la) Da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,
deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.
„What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.“
— 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
Originál: (la) Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti
in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.
