“Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem. Difficile est, verum hoc qua lubet efficias,” which is Latin for “It is difficult suddenly to put aside a long-standing love; it is difficult, but somehow you must do it.””
Quotes by Gaius Valerius Catullus
“Driven across many nations, across many oceans I am here, my brother, for this final parting,to offer at last those gifts which the dead are givenand to speak in vain to your unspeaking ashes,since bitter fortune forbids you to hear me or answer,O my wretched brother, so abruptly taken!But now I must celebrate grief with funeral tributesoffered the dead in the ancient way of the fathers;accept these presents, wet with my brotherly tears, andnow and forever, my brother, hail and farewell.””
“To whom shall I offer this book, young and sprightly,Neat, polished, wide-margined, and finished politely?To you, my Cornelius, whose learning pedantic,Has dared to set forth in three volumes giganticThe history of ages”
Selections From Catullus: Translated into English verse with an Introduction on the theory of Translation
“Odi et amo. Quare I'd faciam, fortasse requiris. ””
“Ille mi par esse deo videturille, si fas est, superare divos,qui sedens adversus identitem tespectat et auditdulce ridentem, misero quod omniseripit sensus mihi: nam simul te,Lesbia, aspexi, nihil est super milingua sed torpet, tenuis sub artusflamma demanat, sonitu suoptetintinant aures gemina, tegunturlumina nocte.otium, Catulle, tibi molestum est;otio exsultas nimiumque gestis;otium et reges prius et beatasperdidit urbes.””
Gaius Valerius Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus was a prominent Roman poet of the late Republic, known for his passionate and often personal poetry that explored themes of love, friendship, and the complexities of human emot...