Catullus
Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catulluswas a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote in the neoteric style of poetry. His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art...
kissing giving funny-valentine
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.
funny humor
But you shall not escape my iambics.
bird sparrows birdsong
Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.
blessed home tired
Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of far travel we have come to our own home and rest on the couch we longed for? This it is which alone is worth all these toils.
death dark path
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.]
godly needs poet
For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
faults wallets
Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
gratitude giving-up grateful
Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.
girl flower boys
So a maiden, while she remains untouched, remains dear to her own; but when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
delight sparrows
My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight
laughter men tears
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...
hate love-you agony
I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
laughter laughing foolish
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est
wine water destruction
Away with you, water, destruction of wine!