catullus

[little flower]

hi again
could you help me translate a few lines?

Vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus
Rumoresque senum severiorum
Omnes unus aestimemus assis.

Let us live my Lesbia and let us love
and all the rumours of being very austere
we will value little.

thanks in advance.
little flower

[spiphany]

For Rumoresque senum severiorum try: "All the gossip of rather austere old men" (senum -> senex, here used as a noun)

[Imber Ranae]

That should be unius aestimemus assis. That's genitive of quality/value, "we will consider the worth of a single penny."

[vir litterarum]

Imber Ranae wrote:

"we will consider the worth of a single penny."

"aestimemus" is not future indicative but present hortatory subjunctive, i.e. "let us value..."

[galen697]

For Rumoresque senum severiorum try: "All the gossip of rather austere old men" (senum -> senex, here used as a noun)

I've generally translated "severiorum" as "more stern" old men, which I think better reflects the group of people he's describing that disapprove of Catullus' Bohemian, neoteric lifestyle.

[Scribo]

I'm boring, I use "severe"