Gaius Valerius Catullus, 55 "To Camerius: What are you up to?"

Catullus is looking for his friend Camerius, while he suspects that Camerius may be in a relationship.

 

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si potes, dic mihi ubi sis.

 

quaesivi te in Campo minore, in Circo Maximo, in tabernis quae libros vendunt, et in sacrato templo Iovis.

 

amice, interrogavit omnes puellas ambulantes in theatro Magni Pompeii, feminae quae serenae esse videntur.

 

sic ego ipse clamabam, pessimae puellae dic mihi ubi Camerius sit.

 

respondit, “ecce pectus meum, Camerius se ocultat inter roseas mammas.”

 

sed iam est labor Herculi ferre te;

 

amice, tu negas te esse in tam turpe re.

 

dic nobis ubi tu futurus sis, audax, noli te occultare.

 

puellae capillis flavis te tenent?

 

si non dicis, non habebis omnes fructus amoris.

 

Venus est laeta cum verbis multis.

 

vel, si vis, licet tibi claudere os tuum, dum ego sim pars tui amoris.

 

Written by Robert Amstutz

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