Ille mi par esse Deo videtur, ille, si fas est, superare Di… - Catullus

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Ille mi par esse Deo videtur,
ille, si fas est, superare Divos,
qui sedens adversus identidem te
spectat et audit
dulce ridentem.

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

Si quicquam cupido optantique optigit umquam
insperanti, hoc est gratum animo proprie.

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.

Ille mi par esse Deo videtur, ille, si fas est, superare Divos, qui sedens adversus identidem te spectat et audit dulce ridentem. - Catullus

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