Catullus Quotes - Page 2

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• The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.

  Catullus

  Air, Lovers, Fit

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• Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.

  Catullus

  Thank You, Gratitude, Grateful

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• 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

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

  Catullus

  Love, Hate, Agony

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• 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

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• 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".

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• There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.

  Catullus

  Stupid, Silly, Laughing

  Gaius Valerius Catullus (1962). “Tibullus”

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

  Catullus

  Book, Giving, Littles

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

  Catullus

  Hate, I Hate

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• 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

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

  Catullus

  Delight, Sparrows

  Carmina no. 3

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• 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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