Catullus

Person · Open Library

Born

87 B.C.

Died

54 B.C.

Works

571

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Italy

Active from

-84

Active to

-54

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

123

Total plays

1,277

Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC) was a Roman poet of the 1st century BC. His surviving works are still read widely, and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art. Catullus invented the "angry love poem." Statue of the poet at Sirmione Catullus came from a leading equestrian family of Verona, and according to St. Jerome he was born in the town. The family was prominent enough for his father to entertain Caesar, then governor of Gaul. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Catullus">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. 48

   · 2008 · cited 3x

2. 58

   · 1981 · cited 2x

3. Poems

   · 2008 · cited 2x

4. 38

   · 2008 · cited 1x

5. 51

   · 2008 · cited 1x

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Quotes

• “Cui dono lepidum novum libellumArido modo pumice expolitum?”
• “Lugete, O Veneres Cupidinesque,Et quantum est hominum venustiorum.Passer mortuus est meae puellae,Passer, deliciae meae puellae.”
• “Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosumilluc, unde negant redire quemquam.”
• “Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemusrumoresque senum severiorumomnes unius aestimemus assissoles occidere et redire possunt:nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux,nox est perpetua una dormienda.”
• “Da mi basia mille, deinde centum,dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.”
• “Quaeris, quot mihi basiationestuae, Lesbia, sint satis superque?”

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Key facts

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Catullus

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20th-century bust of Catulluson the Piazza Carducci in Sirmione

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Gaius Valerius Catullus

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Verona, Italy, Roman Republic

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(age 29–30)

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Rome

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Poet

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Latin

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Lyric poetry

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