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From The Latin Poets, edited by Francis R. B. Godolphin

FORBEAR

"Forbear, while heaven frowns, to fume and fret."

From The Poet's Prayer, by Quintus Lutatius Catullus, translated by F. A. Wright

To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses

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From Lars Porsena or The Future of Swearing, by Robert Graves

HORACE VS. CATULLUS

"Horace is my idea of a characteristically obscene man. An immoderate liking for his poems is, I believe, a sure proof of obscenity in a person. Catullus, on the other hand, was not obscene: he had greater self-respect."

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From The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition, Translated with Commentary by Peter Green

LEISURE

"Leisure, Catullus, is dangerous to you: leisure
urges you into extravagant behavior:
leisure in time gone by has ruined kings and
prosperous cities."

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