Chronology
Every drafted work, year by year, alongside the events of the author's life. Runs of consecutive letters are folded into groups so you can skim past them or expand to read.
54 BC
Fere triginta annos natus, prope finem brevis vitae. Catullus per Romam Caesaris, celerem ac periculis plenam, versatur — amore cum «Lesbia», sodalicio litterarum «poetarum novorum», simultatibus et funeribus — atque ex his omnibus carmen lyricum fingit, intimitate ac veneno in sermone Latino antea non cognitis. Circa hunc annum iam mortuus est.
poem Carmina 54 BC