Love
Carmen XCII (Cornish)
Translated by F. W. Cornish (Loeb, 1913) · From The Poems of Catullus (Loeb, 1913)
Love
Lesbia always speaks ill of me, and is always talking about me May I perish if Lesbia does not love me. By what token? because it is just the same with me. I am perpetually crying out upon her, but may I perish if I do not love her.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen XCII (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/196/.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen XCII (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/196/.
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