Gaius Valerius Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus

Poet.

• Let us live and love, my Lesbia, and value at a penny all the talk of crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of perpetual night. Give me a thousand kisses.
  • Latin: Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus.../Soles occidere et redire possunt:/Nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux/Nox est perpetua una dormiena/ Da mi basia mille

  -CARMINA, XI

• Over head and heels
  • Latin: Per caputque pedesque

  -Ib. XX

• What a woman says to her fond lover should be written in the wind and the running water.
  • Latin: sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti / in vente et rabida scribere oportet aqua

  -Ib. LXX

• If anything has happened to one who ever yearned and wished
  but never hoped, that is a rare pleasure of the soul.
  • Latin:Si quicquam cupido optantique optigit umquam
    Insperanti, hoc est gratum animo proprie

  -CVII