Rome's most scandalous poet: in love with another man's wife, at war with his rivals, tender about a sparrow and filthy about everyone — all in poems short enough to read at a red light.
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Catullus wrote the most alive poems that survive from Rome — love and hatred for Lesbia in the same breath, savage jokes, a heartbroken elegy at his brother's grave. Two thousand years on, nothing about him feels old.
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