Lesbia mi dicit semper male nec tacet umquam de me: Lesbia me dispeream nisi amat quo signo? quia sunt totidem mea: deprecor illam assidue verum dispeream nisi amo. Lesbia always talks bad to me nor is she ever silent  about me: may I die if Lesbia does not love me. by what sign? because they … More

Nulla potest mulier tantum se dicere amatam vere, quantum a me Lesbia amata mea est. nulla fides ullo fuit umquam foedere tanta, quanta in amore tuo ex parte reperta mea est. No woman can say she was so much loved as much as my lesbia is loved by me. no faith so great was ever … More #87

Lesbius est pulcer.  quid ni? quem Lesbia malit. quam te cum tota gente, catulle, tua. sed tamen hic pulcer vendat cum gente catullum, si tria notorum suavia reppererit. Lesbius is beautiful.  Why not? Lesbia prefers him more than you with your whole clan, Catullus, but still, the beautiful boy would sell Catullus with his people, … More #79

Odi et amo.  Quare id faciam fortasse requiris, nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. I hate and I love.  Why I do so, perhaps you ask.  I know not, but I feel it and I am in torment.