https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Poetry_of_Gaius_Valerius_Catullus/5#Text_.26_Translation
1 Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love,
2 rumoresque senum severiorum and let's value all the rumors
3 omnes unius aestimemus assis! of rather stern old men as one penny!
4 soles occidere et redire possunt; Suns can set and return;
5 nobis, cum semel occidit brevis lux, as for us, once our brief light sets,
6 nox est perpetua una dormienda. there is one perpetual night to be slept.
7 da mi basia mille, deinde centum, Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,
8 dein mille altera, dein secunda centum, then a thousand others, then a second hundred,
9 deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum; then up to a thousand others, then a hundred.
10 dein, cum milia multa fecerimus, Then, when we have made many thousands,
11 conturbabimus illa ne sciamus, we will mix them up, lest we should know,
12 aut ne quis malus invidere possit or lest any evil person should be able to envy us
13 cum tantum sciat esse basiorum. when he knows, how many kisses there are.
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