Love
Carmen LXXV (Cornish)
Translated by F. W. Cornish (Loeb, 1913) · From The Poems of Catullus (Loeb, 1913)
Love
To this point is my mind reduced by your fault, my Lesbia, and has so ruined itself by its own devotion, that now it can neither wish you well though you should become the best of women, nor cease to love you though you do the worst that can be done.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen LXXV (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/181/.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen LXXV (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/181/.
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