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Catullus Quotes - Page 2

All Quotes Giving Hate Laughter Love Water Writing
Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale

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

Catullus
Brother, Bye, Good Bye

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

Catullus
Writing, Youth, Access

My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women, -or stop loving you, no matter what you do.

Catullus
Loving You, Mind, Matter

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

Catullus
Love, Hate, Agony

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

Catullus
Hate, And Love, Feels

So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.

Catullus
Girl, Flower, Boys
"Delphi Complete Works of Catullus".

There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.

Catullus
Stupid, Silly, Laughing
Gaius Valerius Catullus (1962). “Tibullus”

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

Catullus
Hate, I Hate

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

Catullus
Book, Giving, Littles

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

Catullus
Running, Writing, Air
Gaius Valerius Catullus, Reney Myers, Robert J. Ormsby (1970). “Catullus: the complete poems for American readers”, Dutton Adult

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

Catullus
Delight, Sparrows
Carmina no. 3

Now Spring restores the balmy heat, now Zephyr's sweet breezes calm the rage of the equinoctial sky.

Catullus
Sweet, Spring, Sky

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