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by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE)

Desine de quoquam quicquam bene velle...
Language: Latin 
Our translations:  SPA
[Desine]1 de quoquam quicquam bene velle mereri
aut aliquem fieri posse putare pium.
Omnia sunt ingrata, nihil fecisse benigne
[prodest]2, immo etiam taedet obestque magis;
ut mihi, quem nemo gravius nec acerbius urget,
quam modo qui me unum atque unicum amicum habuit.3

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•   C. Orff 

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1 Orff: "O mea Lesbia! Desine"
2 Orff: "est"
3 Orff interpolates at the end:
Omnia sunt ingrata.
Applaudunt senes dicentes:
Senes
Placet, placet, placet,
optime, optime, optime.

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]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • 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
Line count: 6
Word count: 46

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