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Catullus · -50
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Desire burns, humiliates, and outlasts the beloved; love is war waged on the self.
desire
quam sidera multa, cum tacet nox, furtiuos hominum uident amores — as many as the stars that watch stolen loves by night
CACAR-RC-003difficile est longum subito deponere amorem — it is hard to lay down a long love suddenly
CACAR-RC-030erotic-as-power
non solum meminit, sed irata est: hoc est, uritur et loquitur — she is not merely remembering; she burns, and speaks
CACAR-RC-031stimulatus ibi furenti rabie, uagus animis, deuoluit ile acuto sibi pondere silicis — frenzied, he unmanned himself with a sharp stone
CARMI-RC-016grief
numquam ego te, uita frater amabilior, aspiciam posthac? — never again shall I look upon you, brother dearer than life
CACAR-RC-023Troia uirum et uirtutum omnium acerba cinis — Troy, bitter ash of men and all their virtues
CACAR-RC-027Illuminates
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