CATULLUS'S RETURN HOME TO THE PENINSULA OF SIRMIO. CARMEN XXXI. O BEST of all the scatter'd spots that lie PENINSULARUM, Sirmio, insularumque Scarce able to believe my journey o'er, Hail, lovely Sirmio! Hail, paternal soil! Joy, my bright waters, joy; your master's come! Laugh, every dimple on the cheek of home! Vix m ipse credens Thyniam atque Bithynos Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino Hoc est quod unum est pro laboribus tantis. Ridete, quidquid est domi cachinnorum! CATULLUS TO CORNIFICIUS. CARMEN XXXVIII. SICK, Cornificius, is thy friend, Sick to the heart; and sees no end Of wretched thoughts, that gath'ring fast And yet you never come and bring Though 'twere the least and easiest thing— A comfort in that talk of thine: You vex me:-this, to love like mine? Full as the tears of poor Simonides. MALE est, Cornifici, tuo Catullo, Male est mehercule, et laboriose, Et magis magis in dies et horas: Quem tu-quod minimum facillimumque est— Qua solatus es adlocutione? Irascor tibi:-sic meos amores? Paulum quid lubet adlocutionis, ACME AND SEPTIMIUS, OR THE ENTIRE AFFECTION. FROM CATULLUS.-CARMEN XLV. 'OH, Acme love! Septimius cried, ACMEN Septimius, suos amores, Tenens in gremio, Mea,' inquit, Acme, Ni te perdite amo, atque amare porro Quantum qui pote plurimum perire, |