Gaius Valerius Catullus

(84-54 BC / Verona, Gaul)

poet Gaius Valerius Catullus
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  • Fabrizio Frosini Fabrizio Frosini (11/27/2015 6:13:00 PM)

    '' Nil nimium studeo, Caesar, tibi velle placere, nec scire utrum sis albus an ater homo ''

    [Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carme]

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  • Fabrizio Frosini Fabrizio Frosini (11/27/2015 6:06:00 PM)

    « Quid est, Catulle? quid moraris emori?
    sella in curuli struma Nonius sedet,
    per consulatum peierat Vatinius:
    quid est, Catulle? quid moraris emori? »

    [Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carme 52]

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Lesbia’s Sparrow

All you Loves and Cupids cry
and all you men of feeling
my girl’s sparrow is dead,
my girl’s beloved sparrow.
She loved him more than herself.
He was sweeter than honey, and he
knew her, as she knows her mother.
He never flew out of her lap,
but, hopping about here and there,

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