Latin - Cambridge School Classics Project

Catullus, Poem 72 (translation)You used to say once that you knew only Catullus,Lesbia, and that you did not want to hold Jupiter instead of me.I loved you then, not just as the common man loves his girlfriend,but as a father loves his sons and sons-in-law.Now I have got to know you: therefore even if I am more inflamed with passion,however, you are much cheaper and more trivial to me.How is it possible, you say? Because such injustice forcesa lover to love more, but to like less.WJEC Level 2 Latin Literature Unit 9541 Love and Marriage 39