The poems of Catullus

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Gaius Valerius Catullus: The poems of Catullus (1931, Covici-Friede)

351 pages

English language

Published April 13, 1931 by Covici-Friede.

OCLC Number:
218068

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I started this book because I wanted to translate some Latin poetry, and I'd read some bits of Catullus in my textbook that were quite sweet.

Unfortunately, those sweet bits are few and far apart among his poems. In the vast majority of his work he is simply nasty. He viciously skewers people without mercy and often drops into obscenity. There were many times when, after parsing out and understanding the Latin, I was at a loss of how to restate it in English. Because I couldn't bring myself to write down the English words that were needed to do this. Hell, in many cases I didn't even know the English equivalents.

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