Let us live, my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing… - Catullus

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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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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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What a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.

Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anyone can ever become grateful.

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 ligh… - Catullus

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