Poems of Catullus with Latin text

1, 2a, 2b, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

10, 11, 12, 13, 14a, 14b, 15, 16, 17


Poem 14b:  My readers

SI qui forte mearum ineptiarum

lectores eritis manusque uestras

non horrebitis admouere nobis . . .

If, perhaps, any of you will be

readers of my trifles and will

not shudder to bring your hands near us . . .

 

Notes
A fragment, once thought to belong to Poem 14a.

The Latin metre is hendecasyllables; the English metre is tetrameters.