Born in 84 BCE, Catullus knew Julius Caesar, Cicero and the turbulence that would end the Roman Republic. He was caught up in, not the politics at Rome - Catiline's conspiracy, the First Triumvirate and Caesar's entering Gaul - but his passion for Lesbia, the wife of Metellus Celer.
Meet Catullus and those he loved and hated and decried. Meet Lesbia, his love above all else, and Furius and Aurelius, his friends and companions. Meet his boat Phasellus, Egnatius the Celtiberian and an adulteress' door. Read what he had to say about Cicero, Caesar and Pompey.
CAVEAT EMPTOR
Some poems are sexually explicit and some vocabulary obscene. If your beliefs are such that we shouldn't do what we shouldn't do and shouldn't say what we shouldn't say, please choose otherwise. Should you choose to read Catullus, may you enjoy this translation.
