Mellitos oculos tuos, Iuventi,
si quis me sinat usque basiare,
usque ad milia basiem trecenta
nec numquam videar satur futurus,
non si densior aridis aristis
sit nostrae seges osculationis.
--Catullus XLVIII
Translation:
If I could kiss your honey sweet eyes, Iuventius, I would kiss them three hundred thousand times. Nor would I seem to be satisfied if the rows of our kisses were more plentiful than the dry grain of the field.
CATULLUS
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Name: Gaius Valerius
Catullus
Date: 84 – 54 BCE
Works: Poems
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Catullus
was a Roman statesman born in Verona (Cisalpine Gaul, located in northern Italy)
who lived during the tumultuous last days of the Roman Republic. His poetry offers rare insight into the mores
of the time period. Like Propertius and Tibullus, Catullus used a pseudonym for
the objects of his attention; many of his love poems were addressed to either “Lesbia”
or “Juventius.”
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