Gaius Valerius Catullus citáty
Gaius Valerius Catullus
Datum narození: 84 př. n. l.
Datum úmrtí: 54 př. n. l.
Další jména: Catullus,Catullus Gaius Valerius,Гай Валерий Катулл
Gaius Valerius Catullus byl římský básník. Pocházel z veronské aristokratické rodiny, v jejímž domě se zastavil dokonce Gaius Iulius Caesar. Catullus náležel do skupiny neoteriků a orientoval se především na tvorbu helénistického básníka Kallimacha. Jeho carmina m.j. zhudebnil Carl Orff
Citáty Gaius Valerius Catullus
„Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.“
— Gaio Valerio Catullo
Context: Let us live, my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.
V, lines 1–6
Thomas Campion's translation:
My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love;
And though the sager sort our deeds reprove,
Let us not weigh them: Heaven's great lamps do dive
Into their west, and straight again revive,
But, soon as once set is our little light,
Then must we sleep one ever-during night.
From A Book of Airs (1601)
„Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.“
— Gaio Valerio Catullo
There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
XXXIX, line 16
„Henceforth let no woman believe a man's oath, let none believe that a man's speeches can be trustworthy. They, while their mind desires something and longs eagerly to gain it, nothing fear to swear, nothing spare to promise; but as soon as the lust of their greedy mind is satisfied, they fear not then their words, they heed not their perjuries.“
— Gaio Valerio Catullo
LXIV
