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| CAELI, Lesbia nostra, Lesbia illa. | 1 | O, Caelius, my Lesbia, that Lesbia, |
| illa Lesbia, quam Catullus unam | 2 | that Lesbia whom alone Catullus loved |
| plus quam se atque suos amauit omnes, | 3 | more than himself and all his own, |
| nunc in quadriuiis et angiportis | 4 | now in the cross-roads and alleys |
| glubit magnanimi Remi nepotes. | 5 | peels the descendants of lordly-minded Remus. |