Catullus 60

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Catullus 60 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus.

The meter is choliambic, a relatively uncommon form in Catullus' poetry.

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Line Latin Text English Translation
1 Num te leaena montibus Libystinis Surely not a Libystinis mountain lion
2 aut Scylla latrans infima inguinum parte Or the Scylla barking from the lowest groin
3 tam mente dura procreavit ac taetra That bore you, with such a hard and repulsive mind
4 ut supplicis vocem in novissimo casu That you would hold in contempt the voice of a suppliant
5 contemptam haberes, a nimis fero corde? In his recent misfortune, with all too savage a heart

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  • Weinreich, O (1959). "Catullus c.60". Hermes 87: 76–90. 

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Poems (Carmina) of The Roman poet Catullus
Lesbia poems 2, 2b, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 36, 37, 51, 58, 68, 70, 72, 75, 76, 79, 83, 85, 86, 87, 91, 92, 104, 107, 109
Invective poems 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 33, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 49, 52, 53, 54, 57, 59, 60, 69, 71, 73, 74, 77, 78, 80, 84, 88, 89, 90, 93, 95, 97, 98, 103, 108, 110, 111, 112, 113, 116
Unusual poetic meters
4, 8, 11, 17, 22, 25, 29, 30, 31, 34, 37, 39, 44, 51, 52, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64
Hendecasyllabic verse 1, 2, 2b, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 14b, 15, 16, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 58b
Elegiac couplets 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116
See also the list of poems by Catullus.