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Catullus on Wedding

Italy

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It is difficult at once to relinquish a long-cherished love.

What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water.

Mourn, ye Graces and Loves, and all you whom the Graces love. My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow my lady's pet, whom she loved more than her own eyes.

It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-standing love.

I hate and I love. Why do I do so you perhaps ask.
I cannot say; but I feel it to be so, and I am tormented accordingly.

My Lesbia, let us live and love.

I hate and love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it, and I am in torment.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Catullus (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.