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Catullus on darkness
Catullus35 quotes“Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]”
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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
CatullusCatullus Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.
CatullusCatullus Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
CatullusCatullus Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
CatullusCatullus There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
CatullusCatullus I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]
CatullusCatullus Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
CatullusCatullus Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
CatullusCatullus What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
CatullusCatullus It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.
CatullusCatullus The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
CatullusCatullus Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
CatullusCatullus I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
CatullusCatullus It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem
CatullusCatullus Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
CatullusCatullus Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
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