Translation | Original Latin | Line |
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You ask, my Lesbia, how many of your kisses |
Quaeris, quot mihi bāsiātiōnēs |
7.1 |
Note: lines 7.2 and 7.4 are examples of hendecasyllable meter beginning with an iambus (tuae, lăsar-). Unlike Martial, who consistently uses a spondee (— —) in the first foot, Catullus sometimes takes the freedom of using a trochee (— u) or an iambus (u —) instead.