| Latin |
English |
| O REM ridiculam, Cato, et iocosam, |
O, Cato, what an absurdly funny thing, |
| dignamque auribus et tuo cachinno! |
worthy for you to hear and laugh at! |
| ride quidquid amas, Cato, Catullum: |
Laugh, as much as you love Catullus, Cato. |
| res est ridicula et nimis iocosa. |
The thing is too absurd and funny. |
| deprendi modo pupulum puellae |
I just found a young boy having sex with a girl: |
| trusantem; hunc ego, si placet Dionae, |
May it please Diona, I attacked him |
| pro telo rigida mea cecidi. |
with my rigid thing, using it as a spear. |
Poems (Carmina) of The Roman poet Catullus
|
| Lesbia poems |
2, 2b, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 36, 37, 51, 58, 68, 70, 72, 75, 76, 79, 83, 85, 86, 87, 91, 92, 104, 107, 109 |
| Invective poems |
10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 33, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 49, 52, 53, 54, 57, 59, 60, 69, 71, 73, 74, 77, 78, 80, 84, 88, 89, 90, 93, 95, 97, 98, 103, 108, 110, 111, 112, 113, 116 |
Unusual poetic meters
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4, 8, 11, 17, 22, 25, 29, 30, 31, 34, 37, 39, 44, 51, 52, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 |
| Hendecasyllabic verse |
1, 2, 2b, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 14b, 15, 16, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 58b |
| Elegiac couplets |
65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116 |
| See also the list of poems by Catullus. |
