拉丁詩欣賞：簡單說明

這裡貼的詩歌應是西洋詩歌較原始的形式。古希臘文，這裡不能顯示，即使能顯示，沒有些基本訓練，一眼看上去，是念不出來的。

拉丁文，是現在西洋文字的基本形式，拼音文字，不管懂不懂意思，大致都可按字母讀出聲音來。貼此詩，給好奇的網友一個機會，自己試試西洋古典詩歌的音律。輔音大致都和英文一樣，元音可以自己定音，只要保持一致就行。

此詩歌是非常流行的愛情詩，在西方高中拉丁文閱讀課已可以選到。原文後邊有英文譯文。但要注意，譯文是詩體，不是原文的字對字的直譯。你要是按英文轉譯拉丁文原文，會有失誤。您會犯百年前從日文等翻譯浮士德之類的錯誤。

後邊有作者簡單的生平介紹，有心的網友可以自己在GOOGLE或YAHOO更詳細的介紹。如果能貼上來更好，預先感謝。

Catullus --- Carmen

V. ad Lesbiam

Viuamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus,
Rumoresque senum seueriorum
Omnes unius aestimemus assis.
Soles occidere et redire possunt:
Nobis, cum semel occidit breuis lux,
Nox est perpetua una dormienda.
Da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
Dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,
Deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum,
Dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,
Conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,
Aut ne quis malus inuidere possit,
Cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.

5. Let’s Live and Love: to Lesbia

Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love,
and let us judge all the rumors of the old men
to be worth just one penny!
The suns are able to fall and rise:
When that brief light has fallen for us,
we must sleep a never ending night.
Give me a thousand kisses, then another hundred,
then another thousand, then a second hundred,
then yet another thousand more, then another hundred.
Then, when we have made many thousands,
we will mix them all up so that we don't know,
and so that no one can be jealous of us when he finds out
how many kisses we have shared.

Short Curriculum Vitae

Born in Verona (Gallia Cisalpina) around 82 B.C.
Father was a friend of Julius Caesar's.
Falls in love with Clodia, around 60 B.C.
Brother dies at Troy.
Joins the staff of Gaius Memmius, Governor of Bithynia, 57-56 B.C.
No poems datable after 54 B.C., so he may have died sometime around then.