Gaius Valerius Catullus

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Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 – c. 54 BC), was a Roman poet, the dominant figure among the New Poets (neoterici) of the 1st century BC.

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[edit] Carmina

• Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus...
  soles occidere et redire possunt:
  nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,
  nox est perpetua una dormienda.
  da mi basia mille.
  • Translation: 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.
  • V

• Per caputque pedesque.
  • Translation: Over head and heels.
  • XX

• Sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti
  in vente et rapida scribere oportet aqua
  • Translation: What a woman says to a passionate lover should be written in the wind and the running water.
  • LXX

• Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
  nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
  • Translation: I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do it? I don't know, but I feel it happening and am tortured.
  • LXXXV

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

• 'simul te aspexi, nihil est super mi vocis in ore, lingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artus flamma demanat, sonitu suopte tintinant aures, gemina teguntur lumina nocte.'
  • Translation: Directly when I see you, nothing is left from the voice in my mouth, but my tongue is paralyzed, in my limbs flows a delicate flame, By their own sound sing my ears, my eyes are being covered by a double night.