C. Valerius Catullus, Carmina, TO LESBIA, (OF LESBOS-CLODIA?)

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TO LESBIA, (OF LESBOS-CLODIA?)

Love we (my Lesbia!) and live we our day,
While all stern sayings crabbed sages say,
At one doit's value let us price and prize!
The Suns can westward sink again to rise
But we, extinguished once our tiny light,
Perforce shall slumber through one lasting night!
Kiss me a thousand times, then hundred more,
Then thousand others, then a new five-score,
Still other thousand other hundred store.
Last when the sums to many thousands grow,
The tale let's trouble till no more we know,
Nor envious wight despiteful shall misween us
Knowing how many kisses have been kissed between us.

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

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Commentary references to this page (5):
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 14
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 16
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 7
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 9
- Sulpicia, Carmina Omnia, 2
Cross-references to this page (5):
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Metres.
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Lesbia.
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Poems.
- Anne Mahoney, Overview of Latin Syntax, Nouns, Adjectives, and Pronouns
- Anne Mahoney, Overview of Latin Syntax, Verbs

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