C. Valerius Catullus, Carmina, TO LESBIA STILL BELOVED

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TO LESBIA STILL BELOVED

Thou ask'st How many kissing bouts I bore
From thee (my Lesbia!) or be enough or more?
I say what mighty sum of Lybian-sands
Confine Cyrene's Laserpitium-lands
'Twixt Oracle of Jove the Swelterer
And olden Battus' holy Sepulchre,
Or stars innumerate through night-stillness ken
The stolen Love-delights of mortal men,
For that to kiss thee with unending kisses
For mad Catullus enough and more be this,
Risses nor curious wight shall count their tale,
Nor to bewitch us evil tongue avail.

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

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Commentary references to this page (8):
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 100
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 48
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 5
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 6
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 60
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 62
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 68b
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes, 5
Cross-references to this page (4):
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Lesbia.
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Poems.
- Anne Mahoney, Overview of Latin Syntax, Verbs
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), SUDARIUM

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