¡Lesbia mía! Deja de querer servir a cualquiera

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by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE)

Translation © by Saúl Botero Restrepo

Desine de quoquam quicquam bene velle...

Language: Latin

Our translations: SPA

Desine de quoquam quicquam bene velle mereri
aut aliquem fieri posse putare pium.
Omnia sunt ingrata, nihil fecisse benigne
prodest, immo etiam taedet obestque magis;
ut mihi, quem nemo gravius nec acerbius urget,
quam modo qui me unum atque unicum amicum habuit.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• C. Orff

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Text Authorship:

by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Carl Orff (1895 - 1982), "[VII]. O mea Lesbia!", 1940-43, published 1943 [ chorus and orchestra ], from cantata Catulli Carmina, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]

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SPA Spanish (Español) (Saúl Botero Restrepo) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Saúl Botero Restrepo

This text was added to the website: 2015-10-07
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Word count: 42

¡Lesbia mía! Deja de querer servir a...

Language: Spanish (Español) after the Latin

¡Lesbia mía! Deja de querer servir a cualquiera 
y no pienses que nadie pueda mostrarse agradecido.
Todo es ingratitud, de nada sirve obrar bien,
por el contrario, trae fastidio, y perjuicios.
En cuanto a mí, nadie me persigue con más rabia y encarnizamiento 
que el que hasta hace poco me consideró su único amigo.

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This text was added to the website: 2015-10-08
Line count: 6
Word count: 54