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Catullus appreciation challenge:

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Here is a link to a great collection of texts by the ancient roman poet Catullus
The challenge is this, should you decide to accept it:
Read through the poems (you can see the mess of numbered links to the left), systematically or at random, a lot or a little, then post here one that stuck in your mind.

Warning:Some profanity.
Ok, a lot of occasional profanity, but this guy is over 2000 years old, that makes it Culture ;)

I'll start it out short and sweet:
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"I am not really keen, Caesar, to wish to pander to you,
Nor to know whether you are a hero or a villain."

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Yes, that's *the* Caesar, Jules, the original.

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by robo_dev

to have something we wrote be discussed 2,000 years after we wrote it.

This guy wrote his poetry mostly in the year 56 BC, and he is still being studied today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus

I won't mention that a lot of his poems deal with his breakup with his girlfriend, Lesbia. I mean, seriously, he should have seen that coming....

by ansugisalas

seems to be about the supposed sordid doings of his political enemies.
The Ali G of his times ;)

by boxfiddler Hot topic

You got me cruising through my ancient philosphers collection, only to discover I've misplaced Lucretius. :|

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