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  • Poem 1: DEDICATION TO CORNELIUS NEPOS
  • Poem 2: LESBIA'S SPARROW
  • Poem 3: ON THE DEATH OF LESBIA'S SPARROW
  • Poem 4: ON HIS PINNACE
  • Poem 5: TO LESBIA, (OF LESBOS-CLODIA?)
  • Poem 6: TO FLAVIUS: MIS-SPEAKING HIS MISTRESS
  • Poem 7: TO LESBIA STILL BELOVED
  • Poem 8: TO HIMSELF RECOUNTING LESBIA'S INCONSTANCY
  • Poem 9: TO VERANIUS RETURNED FROM TRAVEL
  • Poem 10: HE MEETS VARUS AND MISTRESS
  • Poem 11: A PARTING INSULT TO LESBIA
  • Poem 12: TO M. ASINIUS WHO STOLE NAPERY
  • Poem 13: FABULLUS IS INVITED TO A POET'S SUPPER
  • Poem 14: TO CALVUS, ACKNOWLEDGING HIS POEMS
  • Poem 14b
  • Poem 15: TO AURELIUS—HANDS OFF THE BOY!
  • Poem 16: TO AURELIUS AND FURIUS IN DEFENCE OF HIS MUSE'S HONESTY
  • Poem 17: OF A "PREDESTINED" HUSBAND
  • Poem 18: TO PRIAPUS, THE GARDEN-GOD
  • Poem 19: To PRIAPUS
  • Poem 20: To PRIAPUS
  • Poem 21: To AURELIUS THE SKINFLINT
  • Poem 22: To VARUS ABUSING SUFFENUS
  • Poem 23: TO FURIUS SATIRICALLY PRAISING HIS POVERTY
  • Poem 24: TO JUVENTIUS CONCERNING THE CHOICE OF A FRIEND
  • Poem 25: ADDRESS TO THALLUS THE NAPERY-THIEF
  • Poem 26: CATULLUS CONCERNING HIS VILLA
  • Poem 27: TO HIS CUP-BOY
  • Poem 28: TO FRIENDS ON RETURN FROM TRAVEL
  • Poem 29: TO CAESAR OF MAMURRA, CALLED MENTULA
  • Poem 30: To ALFENUS THE PERJUROR
  • Poem 31: ON RETURN TO SIRMIO AND HIS VILLA
  • Poem 32: CRAVING IPSITHILLA'S LAST FAVOURS
  • Poem 33: ON THE VIBENNII-BATH-THIEVES
  • Poem 34: HYMN TO DIANA
  • Poem 35: AN INVITATION TO POET CECILIUS
  • Poem 36: ON "THE ANNALS "—A SO-CALLED POEM OF VOLUSIUS
  • Poem 37: TO THE FREQUENTERS OF A LOW TAVERN
  • Poem 38: A COMPLAINT TO CORNIFICIUS
  • Poem 39: ON EGNATIUS OF THE WHITE TEETH
  • Poem 40: THREATENING RAVIDUS WHO STOLE HIS MISTRESS
  • Poem 41: ON MAMURRA'S MISTRESS
  • Poem 42: ON A STRUMPET WHO STOLE HIS TABLETS
  • Poem 43: To MAMURRA'S MISTRESS
  • Poem 44: CATULLUS TO HIS OWN FARM
  • Poem 45: ON ACME AND SEPTUMIUS
  • Poem 46: HIS ADIEUX TO BITHYNIA
  • Poem 47: TO PORCIUS AND SOCRATION
  • Poem 48: TO JUVENTIUS
  • Poem 49: TO MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
  • Poem 50: TO HIS FRIEND LICINIUS
  • Poem 51: TO LESBIA
  • Poem 52: CATULLUS TO HIMSELF
  • Poem 53: A JEST CONCERNING CALVUS
  • Poem 54: To JULIUS CAESAR(?)
  • Poem 55: OF HIS FRIEND CAMERIUS
  • Poem 56: TO CATO, DESCRIBING A "BLACK JOKER."
  • Head 57
  • Poem 57: ON MAMURRA AND JULIUS CAESAR
  • Poem 58: ON LESBIA WHO ENDED BADLY
  • Poem 59: ON RUFA
  • Poem 60: TO A CRUEL CHARMER
  • Poem 61: Epithalamium On Vinia And Manlius
  • Poem 62: Nuptial Song By Youths And Damsels
  • Epithalamium
  • Poem 63: THE ADVENTURES OF ATYS
  • Poem 64: Marriage of Peleus and Thetis
  • Poem 65: TO HORTALUS LAMENTING A LOST BROTHER.
  • Poem 66: (LOQUITUR) BERENICE'S LOCK.
  • Poem 67: DIALOGUE CONCERNING CATULLUS AT A HARLOT'S DOOR.
  • Poem 68: To MANIUS ON VARIOUS MATTERS.
  • Poem 69: TO RUFUS THE FETID.
  • Poem 70: ON WOMAN'S INCONSTANCY.
  • Poem 71: TO VERRO.
  • Poem 72: TO LESBIA THE FALSE.
  • Poem 73: OF AN INGRATE.
  • Poem 74: OF GELLIUS.
  • Poem 75
  • Poem 76: IN SELF-GRATULATION.
  • Poem 77: TO RUFUS, THE TRAITOR FRIEND.
  • Poem 78: OF GALLUS.
  • Poem 79: OF LESBIUS.
  • Poem 80: TO GELLIUS.
  • Poem 81: TO JUVENTIUS.
  • Poem 82: TO QUINTIUS.
  • Poem 83: OF LESBIA's HUSBAND.
  • Poem 84: ON ARRIUS, A ROMAN 'ARRY.
  • Poem 85: HOW THE POET LOVES
  • Poem 86: OF QUINTIA.
  • Poem 87: TO LESBIA.
  • Poem 88: TO GELLIUS.
  • Poem 89: ON GELLIUS.
  • Poem 90: ON GELLIUS.
  • Poem 91: TO GELLIUS.
  • Poem 92: ON LESBIA.
  • Poem 93: ON JULIUS CAESAR.
  • Poem 94: AGAINST MENTULA (MAMURRA).
  • Poem 95: ON THE "ZMYRNA" OF THE POET CINNA.
  • Poem 96: TO CALVUS ANENT DEAD QUINTILIA.
  • Poem 97: ON AEMILIUS THE FOUL.
  • Poem 98: TO VICTIUS THE STINKARD.
  • Poem 99: TO JUVENTIUS.
  • Poem 100: ON CAELIUS AND QUINTIUS.
  • Poem 101: ON THE BURIAL OF HIS BROTHER.
  • Poem 102: TO CORNELIUS.
  • Poem 103: TO SILO.
  • Poem 104: CONCERNING LESBIA.
  • Poem 105: ON MAMURRA.
  • Poem 106: THE AUCTIONEER AND THE FAIR BOY.
  • Poem 107: TO LESBIA RECONCILED.
  • Poem 108: ON COMINIUS.
  • Poem 109: TO LESBIA ON HER VOW OF CONSTANCY.
  • Poem 110: TO AUFILENA.
  • Poem 111: TO THE SAME.
  • Poem 112: ON NASO.
  • Poem 113: TO CINNA.
  • Poem 114: ON MAMURRA'S SQUANDERING.
  • Poem 115: OF THE SAME.
  • Poem 116: TO GELLIUS THE CRITIC.
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    Gaius Valerius Catullus, Carmina (ed. Sir Richard Francis Burton)

    Editions and translations: Latin (ed. E. T. Merrill) | English (ed. Sir Richard Francis Burton) | English (ed. Leonard C. Smithers)
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    TO HIS FRIEND LICINIUS

    Idly (Licinius!) we our yesterday,
    Played with my tablets much as pleased us play,
    In mode becoming souls of dainty strain.
    Inditing verses either of us twain
    [5] Now in one measure then in other line
    We rang the changes amid wit and wine.
    Then fared I homewards by thy fun so fired
    And by thy jests (Licinius!) so inspired,
    Nor food my hapless appetite availed
    [10] Nor sleep in quiet rest my eyelids veiled,
    But o'er the bedstead wild in furious plight
    I tossed a-longing to behold the light,
    So I might talk wi' thee, and be wi' thee.
    But when these wearied limbs from labour free
    [15] Were on my couchlet strewn half-dead to lie,
    For thee (sweet wag!) this poem for thee wrote I,
    Whereby thou mete and weet my cark and care.
    Now be not over-bold, nor this our prayer
    Outspit thou (apple of mine eyes !): we pray
    [20] Lest doom thee Nemesis hard pain repay :--
    She's a dire Goddess, 'ware thou cross her way.

    There are a total of 48 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus:
    poem 50 (general note)
    poem 50, line 1: Licini
    poem 50, line 10: somnus
    poem 50, line 11: toto
    poem 50, line 11: indomitus furore
    poem 50, line 13: simul
    poem 50, line 14: postquam
    poem 50, line 16: iucunde
    poem 50, line 17: dolorem
    poem 50, line 18: audax
    poem 50, line 18: cavĕ
    poem 50, line 18: preces
    poem 50, line 19: ocelle
    poem 50, line 2: lusimus
    poem 50, line 2: tabellis
    poem 50, line 20: Nemesis
    poem 50, line 21: vehemens
    poem 50, line 3: convenerat
    poem 50, line 3: esse delicatos
    poem 50, line 5: ludebat numero
    poem 50, line 5: modo hoc modo illoc
    poem 50, line 6: reddens mutua
    poem 50, line 6: per iocum atque vinum
    poem 50, line 7: illinc
    poem 50, line 7: lepore facetiisque
    poem 50, line 9: miserum

    Cross references from E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus:
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    *: ut tecum loquerer simulque ut essem
    *
    *
    *
    *
    *
    *
    *: modo hoc modo illoc
    *
    *
    *: lepor
    *: lepore facetiisque
    *

    Cross references from Anne Mahoney, Overview of Latin Syntax:
    abl [Ablative]: Hesterno, Licini, die otiosi lusimus
    acc [Accusative]: Multum lusimus in meis tabellis
    pres [Tenses of the present system]: Scribens versiculos uterque nostrumludebat numero modo hoc modo illoc,reddens mutua per iocum atque vinum.Atque illinc abii tuo leporeincensus
    subj [Subjunctive]: Atque illinc abii tuo leporeincensus, Licini, facetiisque,ut nec me miserum cibus iuvaretnec somnus tegeret quiete ocellos

    Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
    calvus [Calvus, Licinius]

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    Catullus. Carmina. Sir Richard Francis Burton. trans. London. For translator for private use. 1894.
    OCLC: 878062


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