Catullus

“ O my farm, whether Sabine or Tiburtine
(for they say that you're Tiburtine, they for whom it is not pleasing
to harm Catullus; but they for whom it is pleasing
assert that you are Sabine by any wager) ,
but whether Sabine or more truly Tiburtine,
I was gladly in your suburban villa
and I expelled a bad cough from my chest,
which my stomach gave to me, not undeserving,
while I seek a lavish dinner:
for, while I wish to be a Sestian guest,
I read the speech “Against the Candidate
Antius”, full of poison and pestilence. ”

“ Quārē refectus maximās tibī grātēs
agō, meum quod nōn es ulta peccātum.
Nec dēprecor iam, sī nefāria scrīpta
Sestī recepsō, quīn gravēdinem et tussim
nōn mī, sed ipsī Sestiō ferat frīgus,
quī tunc vocat mē, cum malum librum lēgī. ”