Gaius Valerius Catullus

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Gaius Valerius Catullus

Roman Poet.

  • Let us live and love, my Lesbia, and value at a penny all the talk of crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of perpetual night. Give me a thousand kisses.
    • Latin: Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus.../Soles occidere et redire possunt:/Nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux/Nox est perpetua una dormiena/ Da mi basia mille
    -CARMINA, V
  • Over head and heels
    • Latin: Per caputque pedesque
    -Ib. XX
  • What a woman says to her fond lover should be written in the wind and the running water.
    • Latin: sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti / in vente et rabida scribere oportet aqua
    -Ib. LXX


  • If anything has happened to one who ever yearned and wished
    but never hoped, that is a rare pleasure of the soul.
    • Latin:Si quicquam cupido optantique optigit umquam
      Insperanti, hoc est gratum animo proprie
    -CVII


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