Quid est, Catulle? quid moraris emori?
sella in curuli struma Nonius sedet,
per consulatum peierat Vatinius:
quid est, Catulle? quid moraris emori?

What is it, Catullus? Why do you delay in dying?
That pimple, Nonius, sits in the magistrate's chair;
Vatinius perjures himself by his 'consulship'!
What is it, Catullus? Why do you delay in dying?