Gaius Valerius Catullus, 1 "Dedication to Cornelius"

Catullus dedicates his book to Cornelius.

View the Ludovico Manuscript at the National Library of Scotland

Tier 1

cui dono meum novum libellum, modo politum?

 

Corneli, dono tibi quod tu solebas putare meos versus aliquid.

 

etiam quia tu, solus Italorum ausus es explicare totam historiam tribus libris…Iuppiter, doctis et laboriosis!

 

itaque habe hunc librum tibi, quidquid libri qualemque, qui, o Musa, maneat longior post tempus nostrum! 

Written by Robert Amstutz

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