The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus

Discover the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, the Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote in the neoteric style, with a focus on personal life. His works, known as the Carmina, are highly personal, humorous, and emotional, filled with hyperbole, alliteration, and diminutives. Catullus's explicit sexual imagery has shocked many readers, but his surviving works are still widely read and continue to influence poetry and other forms of art. Here's an excerpt from one of the many poems featured in this collection, 'To Cinna': «Pompey first being chosen to Consul, twofold (O Cinna!) / Men for amours were famed: also when chosen again / Two they remained; but now is each one grown to a thousand / Gallants:—fecundate aye springeth adultery's seed.»