Gaius Valerius Catullus, 86 "To Lesbia: True Beauty"

Quintia is pretty, but lacks substance. Lesbia is the total package.

 

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Quintia formosa est multis viris.

 

mihi Quintia est candida, et longa, et recta: ego confiteor haec singula.

 

nego totum illud “formosa”:

 

nam nulla venustas, nulla mica salis est in tam magno corpore.

 

Lesbia formosa est, Lesbia quae non solum pulcherrima tota est, sed etiam una surripuit omnes Veneres ab omnibus.

 

Written by Robert Amstutz

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