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<p>Take a minute and enjoy 5 lines from the most celebrated poets of ancient Rome that will make you appreciate their timeless power. In English and in Latin.</p>
<h3>1. Catullus V</h3>
<p>Catullus wrote in the late Roman Republic about personal themes, such as love. Here is a line from Catullus V, telling lovers to defy the haters out there:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred,</strong><br />
<strong>then another thousand, and then another hundred,</strong><br />
<strong>and, when we&#8217;ve counted up the many thousands,</strong><br />
<strong>let us confuse them so as not to know them all,</strong><br />
<strong>so that no enemy may cast an evil eye,</strong><br />
<strong>when he finds out that there were so many kisses.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>da mi basia mille, deinde centum,<br />
dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,<br />
deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum.<br />
dein, cum milia multa fecerimus,<br />
conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus,<br />
aut ne quis malus invidere possit,<br />
cum tantum sciat esse basiorum.</em></p>
<h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.inrebus.com/latinlovepoem.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.inrebus.com/latinlovepoem.php</a></h6>
<figure id="attachment_7190" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7190" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-7190" src="https://www.historyhustle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Ovid-Latin-poet-in-Roman-Poetry.jpg" alt="Ovid, Latin poet in Roman Poetry" width="600" height="701" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7190" class="wp-caption-text">Ovid</figcaption></figure>
<h3>2. Ovid, Amores I, 2</h3>
<p>Ovid was a hugely popular poet during Augustus’ reign, and he was actually exiled, probably for his poetry, but historians aren’t certain. This line from Ovid is from a poem about the burden of his love for an upper-class and thus unattainable woman.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Thus it will be; slender arrows are lodged in my heart,</strong><br />
<strong>and Love vexes the chest that it has seized</strong><br />
<strong>Shall I surrender or stir up the sudden flame by fighting it?</strong><br />
<strong>I will surrender &#8211; a burden becomes light when it is carried willingly.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>sic erit; haeserunt tenues in corde sagittae,<br />
et possessa ferus pectora versat Amor.<br />
Cedimus, an subitum luctando accendimus ignem?<br />
cedamus! leve fit, quod bene fertur, onus. </em></p>
<h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.inrebus.com/latinlovepoem.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.inrebus.com/latinlovepoem.php</a></h6>
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<h3>3. Horace, Odes, Book I/9</h3>
<p>Another Roman poet renowned in Rome. Quintilian said: &#8220;He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace”. Here is Horace telling us to live in the moment:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and</strong><br />
<strong>whatever days fortune will give, count them</strong><br />
<strong>as profit, and while you&#8217;re young don&#8217;t scorn</strong><br />
<strong>sweet love affairs and dances,</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere, et<br />
quem fors dierum cumque dabit, lucro<br />
adpone nec dulcis amores<br />
sperne, puer, neque tu choreas,</em></p>
<h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Odes_(Horace)/Book_I/9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Odes_(Horace)/Book_I/9</a></h6>
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<h3>4. Virgil, Eclogues</h3>
<p>Oh, you may have heard of Virgil. Wrote a little something called The Aeneid. Here is Virgil being plain and direct about love:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Virgil, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/5562">Eclogues</a></p>
<h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://exhibits.lib.missouri.edu/exhibits/show/science-of-love/theories-of-love-in-the-ancien" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://exhibits.lib.missouri.edu/exhibits/show/science-of-love/theories-of-love-in-the-ancien</a></h6>
<h3>5. Ovid, The Amores</h3>
<p>Ovid again.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Dolor hic tibi proderit olim</em></p>
<h6 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47676/47676-h/47676-h.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47676/47676-h/47676-h.htm</a></h6>
<p>I hope that helps you deal with whatever you need to deal with today.</p>
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