For to the sacred Cupids and Venuses She promised, if I were reconciled to her and I stopped brandishing savage iambs, that she would give the most select writings of the worst poet to the lame-footed god to be burned with unlucky firewood.
Now, you who were born from the blue sea, who dwell in the sacred Idalium and open Urium, and in Ancona and reedy Cnidus, and in Amathus and in Golgi, and in Dyrrachium, shop of the Adriatic, record this vow to have been accepted and returned, if it is not uncharming and unwitty.
Nam sanctae Venerī Cupīdinīque vōvit, sī sibi restitūtus essem dēsissemque trucēs vibrāre iambōs, ēlectissima pessimī poētae scrīpta tardipedī deō datūram infēlīcibus ūstulanda lignīs.
'Annals of Volusius') to aid him in the discharge of a vow made by Lesbia, invokes Venus to recognize the payment, and with the word throws the Annals into the fire.
[1] According to E. T. Merrill, the poem was evidently written about 59 or 58 BC, in the short period of reconciliation after the temporary coolness marked by Catullus 8.1ff.