I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
CATULLUS
CATULLUS
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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.
CatullusCatullus Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
CatullusCatullus So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
CatullusCatullus For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
CatullusCatullus 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.]
CatullusCatullus I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
CatullusCatullus But you shall not escape my iambics.
CatullusCatullus My mind’s sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn’t like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.
CatullusCatullus To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
CatullusCatullus We see not our own backs.
CatullusCatullus
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