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Catullus Quotes

lyric Latin poet of the Roman Republic

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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Native Name: Gaius Valerius Catullus
Alternative Names: Caius Valerius Catullus

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Similar: Virgil 63.0% Horace 61.2% Publius Papinius Statius 60.3% Lucan 59.9% Ovid 58.7% Ennius 56.7% Gaius Valerius Flaccus 56.7% Silius Italicus 56.2% Juvenal 54.9% Lucretius 54.8%
Let us live, my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.

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Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
rumoresque senum severiorum
omnes unius aestimemus assis
soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.

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Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum
illuc, unde negant redire quemquam.

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Mourn, ye Graces and Loves, and all you whom the Graces love. My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow my lady's pet, whom she loved more than her own eyes.

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Lugete, O Veneres Cupidinesque,
Et quantum est hominum venustiorum.
Passer mortuus est meae puellae,
Passer, deliciae meae puellae.

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Cui dono lepidum novum libellum
Arido modo pumice expolitum?

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