User:Phy1729/Catullus/Poem 116

by Catullus

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Often I seeking with an eager hunting heart how I might be able to send you the poems of Callimachus, by which I might sooth you to me, nor may you send hostile weapons against my head, I see now that this labor has been undertaken by me in vain, 5 Gellus, nor have my prayer prevailed in this. We will evade those spears that have been launched against us: but you pierced by our poems will give as a suppliant.