Catullus entire
Every surviving poem of Gaius Valerius Catullus — all 116 carmina, from the throwaway hendecasyllables and the filthy epigrams to the long mythological set-pieces — translated in a single voice, with the Latin facing every line. A glossary of every name and a cross-reference index sit alongside.
What makes this different
A few things, taken together, set this edition apart. Click any to expand.
The whole book in one voice.
Every poem by the same translator under one style guide — the tender, the obscene, and the elegiac together — where anthologies hand them to different translators.
Read in sequence, not cherry-picked.
Presented as a book rather than a greatest-hits, so the Lesbia poems move from infatuation through disgust to grief as one arc, around the squibs and the lament for a dead brother.
A scholarly apparatus alongside.
A glossary of every name and place and the Latin facing the text — what plain digital editions of Catullus leave out.
From the Latin.
Read from the Latin directly, not adapted from a prior English version. The text comes from open scholarly sources.
More about this edition Catullus's life as a timeline Source on GitHub