“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.”

— Gaio Valerio Catullo , list of poems by Catullus

LI, lines 1–5. Cf. Sappho 31.
Carmina

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Ille mi par esse Deo videtur, ille, si fas est, superare Divos, qui sedens adversus identidem te spectat et audit dulce ridentem.

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Latin poet -84–-54 BC

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