You ask how many kissings of you, Lesbia, are enough for me and more than enough?
• VII, lines 1–2
• VII, lines 1–2
“
Quaeris, quot mihi basiationes
tuae, Lesbia, sint satis superque?
— Catullus
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Quaeris, quot mihi basiationes
tuae, Lesbia, sint satis superque?" in the context of "You ask how many kissings of you, Lesbia, are enough for me and more than enough?
• VII, lines 1–2" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Catullus" (Quotes, Carmina: Quotations in English are taken from The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, trans. Francis Warre Cornish (Cambridge University Press, 1904), unless otherwise noted.)
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About Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 – c. 54 BC) was a Roman poet, the dominant figure among the New Poets (neoterici) of the 1st century BC.
About Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 – c. 54 BC) was a Roman poet, the dominant figure among the New Poets (neoterici) of the 1st century BC.
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