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...
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.
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!
running writing air
What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.
hate i-hate
I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?
running women writing
What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.
thank-you gratitude grateful
Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
religious hands people
I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
hate and-love feels
I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.