Si quicquam cupido optantique optigit umquam insperanti, ho… - Catullus

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

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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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Desine de quoquam quicquam bene velle mereri,
Aut aliquem fieri posse putare pium.

What he himself is, whether he is or is not, he does not know so much as this.

Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labour of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.

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

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