|
ALFENE immemor atque unanimis false sodalibus,
|
1
|
ALFENUS, ungrateful and false to your faithful comrades,
|
|
iam te nil miseret, dure, tui dulcis amiculi?
|
2
|
do you now cease (ah, cruel !) to pity your beloved friend?
|
|
iam me prodere, iam non dubitas fallere, perfide?
|
3
|
What? do you not shrink from betraying me, deceiving me, faithless one?
|
|
nec facta impia fallacum hominum caelicolis placent.
|
4
|
Do the deeds of deceivers please the gods above?
|
|
quae tu neglegis ac me miserum deseris in malis.
|
5
|
All this you disregard, and desert me in my sorrow and trouble;
|
|
eheu quid faciant, dic, homines cuiue habeant fidem?
|
6
|
ah, tell me, what are men to do, whom are they to trust?
|
|
certe tute iubebas animam tradere, inique, me
|
7
|
For truly you used to bid me trust my soul to you (ah, unjust!),
|
|
inducens in amorem, quasi tuta omnia mi forent.
|
8
|
leading me into love as if all were safe for me;
|
|
idem nunc retrahis te ac tua dicta omnia factaque
|
9
|
you, who now draw back from me, and let the winds and vapours of the air
|
|
uentos irrita ferre ac nebulas aereas sinis.
|
10
|
bear away all your words and deeds unratified.
|
|
si tu oblitus es, at di meminerunt, meminit Fides,
|
11
|
If you have forgotten this, yet the gods remember it, remembers Faith,
|
| quae te ut paeniteat postmodo
facti faciet tui. |
12 |
who will soon make you repent
of you deed. |