" #Catullus 16 or Carmen 16 is a poem by #GaiusValerius Catullus (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC). The poem, written in a #hendecasyllabic (11-syllable) meter, was considered to be so #SexuallyExplicit following its rediscovery in the following centuries that a full English translation was not published until the 20th century."
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