Gaius Valerius Catullus, 24 "To Iuventius: On Poverty"

Catullus wants Iuventius to not allow himself to be lived by another man, likely Furius from poem 23.

 

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o tu qui es flos Iuventiorum, non modo horum, sed quot aut Iuventii fuerunt aut erunt,

 

volo te dare divitias Midae isti viro, cui est neque servus neque arca, potius quam tu sinere te amari ab illo.

 

‘qui? nonne est homo pulcher?’ interrogas. est:

 

sed neque servus neque arca est huic pulchro viro.

 

reice id quod volo si vis: tamen ille vir habet nec servum nec arcam.

 

Written by Robert Amstutz

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