Date: 54 B.C.
"[N]or gladly and with joyous breast do I send you, nor will I suffer you to bear signs of helpful fortune, but first from my breast many a complaint will I express, sullying my grey hairs with dust and ashes, and then will I hang dusky sails to the swaying mast, so that our sorrow and burning of...
preview | full record— Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 - c. 54 B.C.)