A few days ago
Anonymous

Latin Poems?

Does anyone know any Latin poems about a young girl? Also in the poem, there are lines that are repeated over and over. I know there are probably heaps of them but a friend and I were talking about one that we translated a while back and we couldn’t remember the name of it or who it was by, though we would recognise it once we see it.

Thanks for helping!

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A few days ago
KarenW

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Maybe is: “Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus

Rumoresque senum severiorum

Omnes unius aestimemus assis.

Soles occidere et redire possunt:

nobis c.um semel occidit brevis lux,

nox est perpetua una dormienda.

Da mi basìa mille, deinde centum,

dein mille altera, dein secunda centum

deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.

Dein, c.um milia multa fecerimus,

conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,

aut nequis malus invidere possit,

c.um tantum sciat esse basiorum”

that’s the incipit of Catullo’s 5th Carmina.

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