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Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE-54 BCE)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Carmina

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By ways remote and distant waters sped (from Under the Hill)
N. Rorem: Catullus: On the burial of his brother

Carmen XLVI (Iam ver egelidos refert tepores )
C. Cooman: Iam ver egelidos

Carmen LXX (Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere malle ) (from Carmina) - J. Reuland ENG
Catullus: Carmen CI (By ways remote and distant waters sped ) (from Under the Hill)
N. Rorem: Catullus: On the burial of his brother

Catullus: On the burial of his brother (By ways remote and distant waters sped ) (from Under the Hill) - N. Rorem
Consolation (If living sorrows any boon ) (from Knave of hearts) - D. Tcimpidis
Friend, if the mute and shrouded dead
J. Duke: Love and death

[No Title] (Greetings, miss, with nose not small) - D. Argento
Greetings, miss, with nose not small
D. Argento: Greetings, miss, with nose not small

[No Title] (I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask ) - D. Argento, D. Argento
I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask
D. Argento, D. Argento: I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask

Iam ver egelidos (Iam ver egelidos refert tepores ) - C. Cooman
Iam ver egelidos refert tepores
C. Cooman: Iam ver egelidos

If living sorrows any boon (from Knave of hearts)
D. Tcimpidis: Consolation

Ille mi par esse deo videtur (from Carmina)
J. Novák: Ode Sapphus

Lass uns leben - M. Oberleithner (Text: after Gaius Valerius Catullus) [x]
Lesbia forever on me rails
J. Duke: Lesbia railing

Lesbia mi dicit semper male (from Carmina) ENG
Lesbia railing (Lesbia forever on me rails) - J. Duke
Lesbia's sparrow (Weep, Mother of Love ! Weep, Baby-Boy of Arrows ! ) (from New Poems) - J. Duke
Let us, kind Lesbia, give away (Let us, kind Lesbia, give away ) - H. Purcell (Text: after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
Let us, kind Lesbia, give away (Text: after Gaius Valerius Catullus)
H. Purcell: Let us, kind Lesbia, give away

[No Title] (Let us live, my Clodia, and let us love) - D. Argento
Let us live, my Clodia, and let us love
D. Argento: Let us live, my Clodia, and let us love

Liebe - H. Krása [x]
Love and death (Friend, if the mute and shrouded dead ) - J. Duke
Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire (from Carmina) ENG
Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus (from Carmina) ENG
[No Title] (My woman says she will be no one's but mine) - D. Argento
My woman says she will be no one's but mine
D. Argento: My woman says she will be no one's but mine

Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere malle (from Carmina) ENG
J. Reuland: Carmen LXX

Num te leaena montibus Libystinis (from Carmina) ENG
Ode Sapphus (Ille mi par esse deo videtur ) (from Carmina) - J. Novák
Odi et amo (Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? ) (from Carmina) - C. Cooman ENG
Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? (from Carmina) ENG
C. Cooman: Odi et amo

Passer (Passer, deliciae meae puellae ) (from Carmina) - J. Novák ENG
Passer, deliciae meae puellae (from Carmina) ENG
J. Novák: Passer

Si quicquam mutis gratum acceptumve sepulcris (from Carmina) ENG
Spätzlein meiner Vielgeliebten - M. Oberleithner (Text: after Gaius Valerius Catullus) [x]
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus (from Carmina) ENG
[No Title] (Was it a lioness from the mountains of Libya ) - D. Argento
Was it a lioness from the mountains of Libya
D. Argento: Was it a lioness from the mountains of Libya

Weep, Mother of Love! (Weep, Mother of Love ! Weep, Baby-Boy of Arrows ! ) (from New Poems)
J. Duke: Lesbia's sparrow

Weep, Mother of Love ! Weep, Baby-Boy of Arrows ! (from New Poems)
J. Duke: Lesbia's sparrow

Wie viel Küsse - M. Oberleithner (Text: after Gaius Valerius Catullus) [x]
[No Title] (Wretched Catullus, put an end to this madness! ) - D. Argento
Wretched Catullus, put an end to this madness!
D. Argento: Wretched Catullus, put an end to this madness!

[No Title] (You promise me, my dearest life, that this our love ) - D. Argento
You promise me, my dearest life, that this our love
D. Argento: You promise me, my dearest life, that this our love

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