Gaius Valerius Catullus, 38 "To Cornficius: Why haven't you checked in?"

Catullus asks why Cornificius hasn’t offered Catullus comfort in troubled times.

 

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malum est Catullo, Cornifici. est malum et peior, me hercule, magis et magis in dies et horas.

 

ego quem tu non consolaris, id quod minimum et facillimum tibi est.

 

iratus tecum sum. aestimas meos amores esse nihil.

 

etiam parvum curae lubet, ego maestius lacrimis Simonideis, poetae Graeci.

 

Written by Robert Amstutz

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