Source: Catullus, Carmina 5
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Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum severiorum omnes unius aestimemus assis!
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love, and all the muttering of sterner old men let us value at a single penny!
Soles occidere et redire possunt: nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda.
Suns can set and rise again: for us, once our brief light has set, there is one endless night to be slept.
Da mi basia mille, deinde centum, dein mille altera, dein secunda centum, deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum. Dein, cum milia multa fecerimus, conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus, aut ne quis malus invidere possit, cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then another thousand, then a second hundred, then yet another thousand, then a hundred. Then, when we have made many thousands, we will muddle the count, so that we do not know, and so no one wicked can cast an evil eye on us when he knows how many kisses there have been.
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Assis is the genitive of as, the smallest copper coin: the gossip is worth a penny, all of it together. ↩