Carmen 5

Let us live, my Dearest, and let us love,
and let us value the opinions of the old men
at a penny’s worth!
The suns are able to fall and rise.
When that brief light has fallen from us,
we must sleep one never-ending night.
Give me a thousand kisses, then another hundred,
then another thousand, then a second hundred,
then yet another thousand more, then another hundred.
Then, when we will have made many thousands,
we will mix them all up so that we won't know,
and so that no man can be jealous of us when he finds out
how many kisses we have shared.

Vivamus mea Lesbia, atque amemus,
rumoresque senum severiorum
omnes unius aestimemus assis!
soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
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 inuidere possit,
cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.