In one parody by this author, Love indicates his approval to a young couple by sneezing. One of this author's poems reviles a miser who has neither "beetles nor spiders nor fire," has a "body drier than bone," and believes th
In one parody by this author, Love indicates his approval to a young couple by sneezing. One of this author's poems reviles a miser who has neither "beetles nor spiders nor fire," has a "body drier than bone," and believes that "sufficiency is riches." In one poem, this man harangues a friend who is stealing his napkins. This poet laments that his girlfriend's eyes are red with weeping in one poem; he tells that girl to "give me a thousand kisses" because "night is one long everlasting sleep" in a poem beginning (*) "Let us live… let us love." This poet threatened to sodomize Furius and Aurelius in Carmen 16. "I hate and I love...I feel it happening and I am tormented" was written by this poet, who mourned the death of his lover's sparrow in another work. For 10 points, name this Roman poet who wrote "Hail and farewell" and addressed many poems to Lesbia.
In one parody by this author, Love indicates his approval to a young couple by sneezing.
Catullus [or Gaius Valerius Catullus]