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		hprotagonist on Oct 25, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Catullus 16 I have always loved that the man who wrote the absolutely shattering elegy that gave us the phrase "hail brother and farewell" (Catullus 101) also gave us this. It's good for poets to have breadth of expression.

timb07 on Oct 25, 2018 [–]

And just to prove I did study Latin, I actually remember the end of that poem:

"atque in perpetuam, frater, ave atque vale"

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