Thursday, January 1, 2004

How Many Kisses: To Lesbia Comments

Rating: 3.1

Lesbia, you ask how many kisses of yours
would be enough and more to satisfy me.
As many as the grains of Libyan sand
that lie between hot Jupiter’s oracle,
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Gaius Valerius Catullus
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Mahtab Bangalee 07 November 2019

the part of kissing in life there is love in spirit///

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Fabrizio Frosini 21 September 2017

Lesbia is Catullus’ mistress, Clodia. He calls her Lesbia in honor of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos.

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Mary-Elizabeth Conn 14 April 2006

I love this guy! He does rant on about his affair with Lesbia quite a lot but when your'e in love you can't help yourself! Is tudied him in latin and translated his poems adn I loved them! I guess we're all fortunate that monks discovered his works which were being used as a bung in a wine barrell!

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