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Catullus 7

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Catullus 7 in Latin and English

Catullus 7 in Latin

Catullus 7 is a poem by Catullus addressed to his mistress Lesbia. Similar to Catullus 5, this poem revels in counting kisses, with a touch of stellar voyeurism.

The meter of this poem is hendecasyllabic, a common form in Catullus' poetry.

Latin text and translation[edit]

quaeris quot mihi basiationes
tuae Lesbia sint satis superque
quam magnus numerus Libyssae harenae
lasarpiciferis iacet Cyrenis
oraclum Iovis inter aestuosi
et Batti veteris sacrum sepulcrum
aut quam sidera multa cum tacet nox
furtivos hominum vident amores
tam te basia multa basiare
vesano satis et super Catullo est
quae nec pernumerare curiosi
possint nec mala fascinare lingua

You ask how many kisses
Of yours, Lesbia, would be enough and more for me.
As great as the number of Libyan sands
That lie at Cyrene producing silphium
Between the oracle of sweltering Jupiter
And the sacred tomb of old Battus,^[a]
Or as many as the stars that, when the night is silent,
See the secret love affairs of men:
For you to kiss so many kisses
is more than enough for crazy Catullus,
These kisses which neither the curious can count
Nor an evil tongue bewitch.

Footnotes[edit]

^ There are several mythological and historical figures called Battus, and it is unclear to which one Catullus was referring.

Bibliography[edit]

Latin Wikisource has original text related to this article:

Catullus 7

English Wikisource has original text related to this article:

Catullus 7

Johnston, PA (1993). "Love and Laserpicium in Catullus 7". Classical Philology. 88 (4): 328–329. doi:10.1086/367376. S2CID 162290715.
Arkins, B (1979). "Catullus 7". L'Antiqué Classique. 48 (2): 630–635. doi:10.3406/antiq.1979.1954.
Segal, C (1974). "More Alexandrianism in Catullus VII?". Mnemosyne. 27 (2): 139–143. doi:10.1163/156852574X00836.
Segal, C (1968). "Catullus 5 and 7: A Study in Complementaries". American Journal of Philology. 89 (3): 284–301. doi:10.2307/293446. JSTOR 293446.
Moorhouse, AC (1963). "Two Adjectives in Catullus 7". American Journal of Philology. 84 (4): 417–418. doi:10.2307/293237. JSTOR 293237.

External links[edit]

Carmina for some of the texts in Latin.
Gaius Valerius Catullus

v t e The poems (Carmina)ofCatullus
Lesbia poems	2 2b 3 5 7 8 11 36 37 51 58 68 70 72 75 76 79 83 85 86 87 91 92 104 107 109
Invective poems	10 12 14 15 16 17 21 22 23 24 25 28 29 30 33 39 40 41 42 43 44 47 49 52 53 54 57 59 60 69 71 73 74 77 78 80 84 88 89 90 93 95 97 98 103 108 110 111 112 113 116
Unusual poetic meters	4 8 11 17 22 25 29 30 31 34 37 39 44 51 52 59 60 61 62 63 64
Hendecasyllabic verse	1 2 2b 3 5 6 7 9 10 12 13 14 14b 15 16 21 23 24 26 27 28 32 33 35 36 38 40 41 42 43 45 46 47 48 49 50 53 54 55 56 57 58 58b
Elegiac couplets	65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116
Related links	List of poems by Catullus Codex Vaticanus Ottobonianus Latinus 1829 List of bibliographies of works on Catullus List of English translations of Catullus

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