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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Virgil Horace Publius Papinius Statius Lucan Ovid

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Nunc iam nulla viro iuranti femina credat,
nulla viri speret sermones esse fideles;
quis dum aliquid cupiens animus praegestit apisci,
nil metuunt iurare, nihil promittere parcunt:
sed simul ac cupidae mentis satiata libido est,
dicta nihil metuere, nihil periuria curant.

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

It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-standing love.

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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