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This reading of Catullus I was made by a student at Swarthmore College, PA, as part of a course called "Love and Hatred in Catullus", using Daniel Garrison's text (The Student's Catullus, University of Oklahoma Publications, 2004). These audio files were kindly supplied by John Bauschatz, with the student's permission.

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Cui dono lepidum novum libellum
arido modo pumice expolitum?
Corneli, tibi; namque tu solebas
meas esse aliquid putare nugas,
iam tum cum ausus es unus Italorum
omne aevum tribus explicare chartis,
doctis, Iuppiter, et laboriosis!
quare habe tibi quidquid hoc libelli
qualecumque, quod, o patrona virgo,
plus uno maneat perenne saeclo.