List of poems by Catullus
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This article lists the poems of Catullus and their various properties. The table is sortable by column, by clicking on the arrows at the top of each column.
The "Type" column is color-coded, with a green font indicating poems for or about friends, a magenta font marking his famous poems about his Lesbia, and a red font indicating invective poems.
In the adressee(s) column, Catullus' target is given for invective poems, whoever is the subject of the poem for miscellaneous poems, and the actual adressee(s) for Lesbia poems and poems for or about friends.
| Poem | Text | Meter | # lines | Type | Themes | Addressee(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 10 | Friends | Gifts to friends, poems | Cornelius Nepos |
| 2 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 13 (10) | Lesbia | A young woman and her pet bird | Lesbia's sparrow |
| 2b | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 3 | Lesbia | Atalanta | |
| 3 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 18 | Lesbia | Eulogy to the girlfriend's pet bird | Orcus |
| 4 | Latin English | iambic trimeter | 27 | Miscellaneous | An old boat, once fast, entering retirement | A little boat |
| 5 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 13 | Lesbia | Brief lives and many kisses | Lesbia |
| 6 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 17 | Friends | Uncovering a friend's love life | Flavius |
| 7 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 12 | Lesbia | Never growing tired of kissing | Lesbia |
| 8 | Latin English | choliambic verse | 19 | Lesbia | Getting over getting dumped | Himself |
| 9 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 11 | Friends | A friend's homecoming | Veranius |
| 10 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 34 | Invective | Caught in a boast | Varus' girlfriend |
| 11 | Latin English | Sapphic stanza | 24 | Lesbia | Dumping a promiscuous girlfriend | Furius and Aurelius |
| 12 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 17 | Invective | Shaming a napkin thief | Asinius Marrucinus |
| 13 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 14 | Friends | Partying on a friend's dime | Fabullus |
| 14 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 23 | Invective | Despising pompous poetry | Bad poets |
| 14b | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 3 | Miscellaneous | Risqué poetry | His readers |
| 15 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 19 | Invective | Hands off my boy-toy (cf. 21) | Aurelius |
| 16 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 14 | Invective | Nasty reply to critics | Aurelius and Furius |
| 17 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 26 | Invective | My friend, the utter dunce | |
| 21 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 13 | Invective | Hands off my boy-toy (cf. 15) | Aurelius |
| 22 | Latin English | choliambic verse | 21 | Invective | Everyone deceives themselves | Suffenus |
| 23 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 27 | Invective | Nasty insults to whole family | Furius |
| 24 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 10 | Invective | Don't give in to his seductions! | Furius |
| 25 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 13 | Invective | Give me back my stuff, expressed beautifully | Thallus |
| 26 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 5 | Invective | Losing the farm to debt | Furius |
| 27 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 7 | Miscellaneous | Out with water, in with wine! | His cupbearer |
| 28 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 15 | Invective | Screwed over by politicians | Memmius |
| 29 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 25 | Invective | Waste of money by politicians | Mamurra |
| 30 | Latin English | greater Asclepiadean | 12 | Invective | Boyfriends can't be trusted (cf. 70) | Alfenus |
| 31 | Latin English | choliambic verse | 14 | Miscellaneous | A hymn to homecoming | Sirmio |
| 32 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 11 | Friends | Really interested | Ipsitilla |
| 33 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 8 | Invective | Father thief, son gigolo | Vibennius, Sr. and Jr. |
| 34 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 24 | Miscellaneous | Hymn to Diana | Diana |
| 35 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 18 | Friends | Please don't go | His papyrus |
| 36 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 20 | Lesbia | Burning bad poetry to win love | Annals of Volusius |
| 37 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 20 | Lesbia | Girlfriend left for richer men | Egnatius |
| 38 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 8 | Friends | Why aren't you conforting me? | Cornificius |
| 39 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 21 | Invective | Smiling hypocrite | Egnatius |
| 40 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 8 | Invective | Threatening a romantic rival | Ravidus |
| 41 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 8 | Invective | woman asking for money (political) | Ameana |
| 42 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 24 | Invective | the effectiveness of politeness | |
| 43 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 8 | Invective | Insulting Mamurra's girlfriend | Ameana |
| 44 | Latin English | choliambic verse | 21 | Invective | Head colds and cold writing | Sestius |
| 45 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 26 | Friends | Over-the-top love poem | |
| 46 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 11 | Miscellaneous | the springtime urge to wander | |
| 47 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 7 | Invective | unworthy become rich | Porcius and Socration |
| 48 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 6 | Friends | Kissing | Juventius |
| 49 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 7 | Invective | Praise (?) of a politician | Cicero |
| 50 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 21 | Friends | Exchanging poetry between friends | Calvus |
| 51 | Latin English | Sapphic stanza | 16 | Lesbia | The feeling of love; translation of Sappho | Lesbia |
| 52 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 4 | Invective | Nonius | |
| 53 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 5 | Invective | Vatinianus | |
| 54 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 7 | Invective | Otho, Libo and Sufficio | |
| 55 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 33 | Friends | Camerius | |
| 56 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 7 | Friends | Cato | |
| 57 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 10 | Invective | Julius Caesar and Mamurra | |
| 58 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 5 | Lesbia | Caelius | |
| 58b | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 10 | Friends | Camerius | |
| 59 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 5 | Invective | Rufa and Rufulus | |
| 60 | Latin English | choliambic verse | 5 | Invective | ||
| 61 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 231 | Friends | Junia and Manlius | |
| 62 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 66 | Miscellaneous | Wedding guests | |
| 63 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 93 | Miscellaneous | Attis | |
| 64 | Latin English | dactylic hexameter | 408 | Miscellaneous | Mini-epic about the wedding of Peleus and Thetis | Theseus, Ariadne, Peleus and Thetis |
| 65 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 24 | Friends | Writing poetry after his brother's death | Hortalus |
| 66 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 94 | Miscellaneous | translation of Callimachus | Berenice |
| 67 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 48 | Miscellaneous | A door | |
| 68 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 160 | Lesbia | Manius | |
| 69 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 10 | Invective | Clean up your act! | Rufus |
| 70 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Lesbia | Girlfriends can't be trusted (cf. 30) | |
| 71 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | ||
| 72 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 8 | Lesbia | Lesbia | |
| 73 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | ||
| 74 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | Gellius | |
| 75 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Lesbia | Lesbia | |
| 76 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 26 | Lesbia | The gods | |
| 77 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | Rufus | |
| 78 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | Gallus | |
| 78b | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Invective | ||
| 79 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Lesbia | Lesbius | |
| 80 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 8 | Invective | Gellius | |
| 81 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Friends | Juventius | |
| 82 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Friends | Quintius | |
| 83 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Lesbia | Lesbia's husband | |
| 84 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 12 | Invective | Arrius | |
| 85 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 2 | Lesbia | Inner turmoil | |
| 86 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Lesbia | ||
| 87 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Lesbia | Lesbia | |
| 88 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 8 | Invective | Gellius | |
| 89 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | Gellius | |
| 90 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | Gellius | |
| 91 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 10 | Lesbia | Gellius | |
| 92 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Lesbia | ||
| 93 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 2 | Invective | Julius Caesar | |
| 94 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 2 | Miscellaneous | Cock | |
| 95 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 10 | Invective | Volusius | |
| 95b | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 10 | Miscellaneous | Antimachus | |
| 96 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Friends | Elegy Friends's lover | Calvus |
| 97 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 12 | Invective | Aemilius | |
| 98 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | Victius | |
| 99 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 16 | Friends | Juventius | |
| 100 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 8 | Friends | Caelius | |
| 101 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 10 | Friends | An elegy for a brother | His brother |
| 102 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Friends | Cornelius Nepos | |
| 103 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Invective | Silo | |
| 104 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Lesbia | ||
| 105 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 2 | Miscellaneous | Cock | |
| 106 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 2 | Miscellaneous | ||
| 107 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 8 | Lesbia | Lesbia | |
| 108 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | Cominius | |
| 109 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Lesbia | Life-long love | Lesbia and the gods |
| 110 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 8 | Invective | Aufilena | |
| 111 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Invective | Aufilena | |
| 112 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 2 | Invective | Naso | |
| 113 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Invective | Maecilia | |
| 114 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Miscellaneous | Cock | |
| 115 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 8 | Miscellaneous | Cock | |
| 116 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 8 | Invective | Gellius |
