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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.

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Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr’s sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.
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Calm Heat Rage Restore Sky Spring
I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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Agony Feeling Hate Love Myself
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
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Hate Love Myself
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
CATULLUS

Laughter One Liner Silly
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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Chaste Herself Lost Maid Sex Women
To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
CATULLUS

Book Little Myself One Liner
But you shall not escape my iambics.
CATULLUS

Escape Yourself
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
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Foolish Laugh One Liner
My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady’s delight
CATULLUS

Animal Bird Death Delight Myself Women
Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus
CATULLUS

Live Myself Relationship Togetherness
Stop wishing to merit anyone’s gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
CATULLUS

Gratitude Oneself Stop Thinking
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
What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
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Fond Lover Swift Water Women Writing
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!
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Age Birth Birthday Cake Surprise Taste
We see not our own backs.
CATULLUS

Back Mistake One Liner Ourselves
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
CATULLUS

Lover Relationship Water Woman Writing

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.

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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.

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