Gaius Valerius Catullus (84-54 BCE) was a Roman poet whose poems are considered to be some of the finest examples of lyric poetry from ancient Rome, despite his youth and early death. https://www.worldhistory.org/Catullus/ #History #Catullus #Cicero #Horace

Gaius Valerius Catullus (84-54 BCE) was a Roman poet whose poems are considered to be some of the finest examples of lyric poetry from ancient Rome, despite his youth and early death. Catullus wrote in the neoteric style during the high point of Roman literature and culture, and his poems were not only read and appreciated during his lifetime but influenced such respected Augustan-era poets as ...https://www.worldhistory.org/Catullus/ #Catullus #Cicero #Horace #History

On this day that's unparalleled at reminding me that I don't fit in, I reached for a new-to-me #translation of #Catullus, & am laughing out loud and loving Frank O. Copley's mid-20th-century English version of this #poet who may have been the original #Beat. Never in my life have I wanted so much to give a live #reading. From 13:
"I got a perfume see
it was a gift to HER
straight from VENUS and CUPID LTD.
when you get a whiff of that you'll pray the gods
to make you... ALL NOSE"
#poetry #books

Speaking of Catullus, from my commonplace book:

Soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.

(From number 5)

I nGaeilge, aistrithe ag Gabriel Rosenstock:

Is féidir leis na grianta dul a luí agus éirí:
nuair a thitfidh an solas neamhbhuan sin orainn
beidh orainn oíche gan chríoch a chur dínn.

#Latine #Gaeilge #Catullus

http://rudy.negenborn.net/catullus/text2/ir5.htm