User:Phy1729/Catullus/Poem 1

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="7" style="font-size: 90%;" !Original Latin!!Literal English Translation To be added To whom do I give this new elegant little book recently polished with dry pumice? O Cornelus for you: and now you were accustomed to think the my nothings were something now then, when you, one of the Italians, dared to explain all history in three volumes learned, O Jupiter, and laborious. Therefore take for yourself whatever and whatever this book; which O patron maiden let it remain eternal for more than one age.