Catullus
Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catulluswas a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote in the neoteric style of poetry. His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art...
love giving-up long
It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
love aqua air
What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
air lovers fit
The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
hate and-love feels
I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
hate love-you agony
I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
love
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
love hate hatred
I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]
love hate two
I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
love passion difficult
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
favors gracious fury
The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
We see not our own backs.
writing youth access
I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
age ill
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
running women writing
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.