Robinson Ellis - Catullus (Part X) lyrics

In the Forum as I was idly roaming Varus took me a merry dame to visit. She a lady, methought upon the moment, Of some quality, not without refinement. So, arrived, in a trice we fell on endless Themes colloquial; how the fact, the falsehood With Bithynia, what the case about it, Had it helped me to profit or to money. Then I told her a very truth; no atom There for company, praetor, hungry natives, Home might render a body aught the fatter: Then our praetor a castaway, could hugely Mulct his company, had a taste to jeer them. Spoke another, 'Yet anyways, to bear you Men were ready, enough to grace a litter. They grow quantities, if report belies not.' Then supremely myself to flaunt before her, I 'So thoroughly could not angry fortune Spite, I might not, afflicted in my province, Get erected a lusty eight to bear me. But so scrubby the poor sedan, the batter'd Frame-work, nobody there nor here could ever Lift it, painfully neck to nick adjusting.' Quoth the lady, belike a lady wanton, 'Just for courtesy, lend me, dear Catullus, Those same nobodies. I the great Sarapis Go to visit awhile.' Said I in answer, 'Thanks; but, lady, for all my easy boasting, 'Twas too summary; there's a friend who knows me, Cinna Gaius, his the sturdy bearers. 'Mine or Cinna's, an inch alone divides us, I use Cinna's, as e'en my own possession. But you're really a bore, a very tiresome Dame unmannerly, thus to take me napping.'