Catullus

Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

— Catullus

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!

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We see not our own backs.

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“Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale.”

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But you shall not escape my iambics.

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

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“Ave Atque Vale Hail and farewell”

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Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est

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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.

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I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

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Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

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I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.

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“You think I'm a sissy? I will sodomize you and face-fuck you.”

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It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem

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Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus

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“Let us live and love, nor give a damn what sour old men say. The sun that sets may rise again, but…

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Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue…

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I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the…

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My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you…

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What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water. [Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In…

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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…

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“soles occidere et redire possunt: nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda. ”

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“Odi et amo; quare fortasse requiris, nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. (my translation: I hate and I love, you ask why…

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“O furum optime balneariorum Vibenni pater et cineadi fili (nam dextra pater inquinatiore, culo filius est voraciore), cur non exilium malasque in…

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“Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our…

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Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away, when the mind lays by its burden, and tired with labor of…

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“We should live, my Lesbia, and love And value all the talk of stricter Old men at a single penny. Suns can…

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“Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum severiorum omnes unius aestimemus assis! soles occidere et redire possunt; nobis cum semel occidit brevis…

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“Through many countries and over many seas I have come, Brother, to these melancholy rites, to show this final honour to the…

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I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?

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Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.

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Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

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What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air.

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“Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.”

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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?

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My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight

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I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness.

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What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air.

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Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale

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