Translation:Catullus 116

by Catullus

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Often searching for you with a studious, hunting mind   so that I could send the poems of Callimachus whereby I should appease you, nor you try   to send hostile spears right into my head; I now see that this labor undertaken by me is in vain,   O Gellius, nor that my prayers have prevailed in this. I'll escape those your hostile spears driven against us,   but you, pierced, will give me compensation.	Saepe tibī studiōsō animō vēnante requīrēns   carmina utī possem mittere Battiadae, quī tē lēnīrem nōbīs, neu cōnārēre   tēla īnfesta meum mittere in ūsque caput, hunc videō mihi nunc frūstrā sūmptum esse labōrem,   Gellī, nec nostrās hīc valuisse precēs. Contrā nōs tēla ista tua ēvītābimus ācta:   at fīxus nostrīs tū dabĭs supplicium.	116.1 116.2 116.3 116.4 116.5 116.6 116.7 116.8