a translation:
Let us live my Lesbia, and let us love,
And may we value all the rumors of too strict old men
As but one assis/penny.
The suns are able to rise and to fall,
For us, when the brief light once falls
It is an everlasting night for sleeping.
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,
Then another thousand, then a second hundred,
Then continuously another thousand, then a hundred.
Then when we will have made many thousands,
We will confuse them so that we may not know,
Or so that anyone evil is not able to envy,
When he knows how great (a number) of our kisses.
summary: expresses his love to his mistress, Lesbia. Says that although they should be forbidden to kiss, they should still continue their love and ignore those who disapprove
No, he wrote a series of poems which was grouped into a work called his Carmina
He wrote masterful poems that attacked his enemies.
If you're talking about the Roman poet, Catullus, then his brother's name was Valerius.
Caesar is referenced by the Roman poet Catullus - who would have known Caesar as a young man (Catullus XCIII). From the poem it seems that Catullus didn't much like Caesar (though there is a tradition that they later became close friends).
Petrarch's sonnet 61 and Catullus's poem "Wretched Catullus, leave off the playing fool" both explore themes of unrequited love and the pain of rejection. While Petrarch's sonnet focuses on the speaker's internal struggles and longing for his beloved, Catullus's poem is more direct in its criticism of the beloved's actions and the speaker's emotional turmoil. Both works showcase the complexities and emotional intensity of love and heartbreak.
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well he had many, one was Lesbia
Catullus was a poet who lived in the late Roman Republic. An essay topic could involve the style of his writing and how it is still used today.
He wrote masterful poems that attacked his enemies.
The cause is unknown, but he died in Rome at the age of 30 in 54 B.C.
Depends upon what you mean by "better"... Is an apple 'better' than a pear? Is South Carolina 'better' than Georgia? I'd say that Virgil is generally held in greater esteem as a Classical poet than Catullus. Virgil's great work, the Æneid, is hard to surpass. ............................................................................................................................
yeah sure as long as you think it makes sense