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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.

Catullus

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.
CATULLUS

Admire Herself Man Myself Relationship Side Time
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
CATULLUS

Age Birth Birthday Cake Surprise Taste
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
CATULLUS

Live Myself Relationship Togetherness
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.
CATULLUS

Love Low Mindset Stop Women Wreck Yourself
I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.
CATULLUS

Feeling Hate Known Love Myself Torment
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
CATULLUS

Destruction Water Wine Yourself
We see not our own backs.
CATULLUS

Back Mistake One Liner Ourselves
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.]
CATULLUS

Darkness Path Return Travel
I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.
CATULLUS

Agony Emotion Feeling Hate Known Love Myself Tear
Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
CATULLUS

Gratitude Oneself Stop Thinking
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
CATULLUS

Kiss Myself Relationship Romance
The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
CATULLUS

Angry Favor God Right Wild Wrong
The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
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Fond Promise Stream Vow Woman
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!
CATULLUS

Aware Destruction Dream Habit Lost One Liner Truth Water Wine
I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.
CATULLUS

Access Clean Love Myself Sing Writing Youth
To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
CATULLUS

Book Little Myself One Liner

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.

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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.

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