Three Latin Poems by Catullus

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

Text Authorship:

• by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 85

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• ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Mario Rapisardi) , no title, first published 1889
• SPA Spanish (Español) (Saúl Botero Restrepo) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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tam gratum est mihi quam ferunt puellae,
pernici aureolum fuisse malum,
quod zonam soluit diu ligitam.

Text Authorship:

• by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 2

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• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Mario Rapisardi) , no title, first published 1889

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O Latonia, maximi
magna progenies Jovis,
quam mater prope Deliam
deposivit olivam,

montium domina ut fores
silvarumque virentium
saltuumque reconditorum
amniumque sonantum.

Dianae sumus in fide
puellae et pueri integri:
dianam pueri integri
puellaeque canamus.

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Text Authorship:

• by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title

See other settings of this text.

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]