CATULLUS POEM 58, An Adaptation of an Ancient Roman Love Lyric

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CATULLUS POEM 58,
An Adaptation of an Ancient Roman Love Lyric




Johnny! It’s Lesbia*, our Lesbia,
That Lesbia, the girl, Stanley loved,
Loved more than self and all he calls his own,
Now at the Great Hall, Chicago, Union Station,
Up and down the polished marble floors,
She goes high-heeled, black boots,
Sports a short skirt, and an open blouse.
Corn, she husks corn
For them, for any one of them,
For any spoiled son of Lincoln with dollar in his pocket.



*Lesbia was the name of Catullus’ lover, the woman to whom he addressed his poetry. Her real name was probably Clodia. He did not mean it to designate a sexual preference.


Carmen 58 (in Latin by CATULLUS)


Caeli, Lesbia nostra, Lesbia illa.
illa Lesbia, quam Catullus unam
plus quam se atque suos amavit omnes,
nunc in quadriviis et angiportis
glubit magnanimi Remi nepotes.