This author compared his fallen love to a faraway flower run over by a plow.
This author compared his fallen love to a faraway flower run over by a plow. In another poem, he threatens a rival with three hundred more lines of verse to demand the return of his handkerchief. This man directed a "new, charming, polished" book of poems to Cornelius Nepos, and the wedding of Thetis and Peleus takes up the 64th and longest of his 116 surviving poems, or carmina. This man mourned the death of his lover's pet sparrow, arrived at his brothers funeral across many harsh seas, and wrote a couplet starting  "I hate and I love." For 10 points, name this author of "Ave atque vale" and lover of Lesbia, an often-obscene poet from the late Roman Republic.
This author compared his fallen love to a faraway flower run over by a plow.
Gaius Valerius Catullus 