This author asked "Because you've read my kisses, you think me less a man?"
This author asked "Because you've read my kisses, you think me less a man?" in one poem. Inanother, he raged against the "evil shades of Orcus" who had taken away a figure who "chirped tohis lady, alone". Thomas Campion translated a poem by this man in which he noted that "Heaven'sgreat lamps do dive into the west" and pleaded with his addressee to "let us (*) live and love". Thissparrow-eulogizing author declared "I hate and I love" in one poem and described traveling "through manynations and over many seas" in a poem in which he gives the "silent ashes" of his brother a "tribute andfarewell". For 10 points, name this author of "Ave Atque Vale", a Roman who dedicated many poems toClodia Metelli, a woman he referred to as Lesbia.
This author asked "Because you've read my kisses, you think me less a man?"
Gaius Valerius Catullus