“All right and wrong, confounded in impious madness, turned from us the righteous will of the gods.”
Omnia fanda nefanda malo permixta furore
iustificam nobis mentem avertere deorum.
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
LXIV
Carmina
Gaio Valerio Catullo: Quotes about God
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“He seems to me to be equal to a god, he, if it may be, seems to surpass the very gods, who sitting opposite thee again and again gazes at thee and hears thee sweetly laughing.”
Ille mi par esse Deo videtur,
ille, si fas est, superare Divos,
qui sedens adversus identidem te
spectat et audit
dulce ridentem.
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
LI, lines 1–5. Cf. Sappho 31.
Carmina
“What is given by the gods more desirable than the fortunate hour?”
Quid datur a divis felici optatius hora?
Gaio Valerio Catullo list of poems by Catullus
LXII
Carmina