Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus)

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Poem 5 ("Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus") is one of Catullus’s most famous Latin love poems, celebrating passionate devotion to his beloved Lesbia while dismissing the judgments of others.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin lyric poem ⓘ
love poem ⓘ
addressedToCharacter Lesbia (pseudonym for a woman, often identified with Clodia Metelli) ⓘ
linked to: Lesbia
addressee Lesbia ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Catullus 5 ⓘ
Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus ⓘ
attitudeTowardCritics dismissive ⓘ
author Gaius Valerius Catullus ⓘ
linked to: Catullus
centralImage innumerable kisses ⓘ
collection Carmina of Catullus ⓘ
linked to: Catulli Carmina
culturalStatus one of Catullus’s most famous poems ⓘ
emotionalTone defiant ⓘ
passionate ⓘ
urgent ⓘ
famousLine Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus ⓘ
nobis, cum semel occidit brevis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda ⓘ
focus passionate devotion to Lesbia ⓘ
rejection of public moral judgment ⓘ
genre elegiac love poetry ⓘ
influenceOn European love lyric tradition ⓘ
Renaissance Latin poetry ⓘ
linked to: Renaissance Latin

modern love poetry ⓘ
keyConcept enjoyment of present pleasures ⓘ
inevitability of death ⓘ
language Latin ⓘ
literaryDevice alliteration ⓘ
anaphora ⓘ
antithesis ⓘ
hyperbole ⓘ
literaryMovement Neoteric poetry ⓘ
literaryPeriod Late Roman Republic ⓘ
meter hendecasyllabic verse ⓘ
motif counting kisses ⓘ
envy of onlookers ⓘ
shortness of life ⓘ
narrativeVoice first person singular ⓘ
openingLine Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus ⓘ
originalTitle Carmen 5 ⓘ
philosophicalAffinity Epicureanism ⓘ
rhetoricalMode persuasion of beloved ⓘ
setting imagined intimate space between poet and Lesbia ⓘ
textualTradition preserved in the Verona manuscript of Catullus ⓘ
theme carpe diem ⓘ
defiance of social opinion ⓘ
love ⓘ
mortality ⓘ
workOf Catullus ⓘ

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Catullus → hasWork → Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus) ⓘ
Carmina → containsPoem → Catullus 5 ⓘ
linked to: Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus)
Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus) → openingLine → Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus ⓘ
linked to: Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus)
Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus) → famousLine → Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus ⓘ
linked to: Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus)
Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus) → alsoKnownAs → Catullus 5 ⓘ
linked to: Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus)
Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus) → alsoKnownAs → Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus ⓘ
linked to: Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus)
Poem 7 (Quaeris quot mihi basiationes) → relatedWork → Catullus 5 ⓘ
linked to: Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus)
Poem 51 (Ille mi par esse deo videtur) → inCollectionWith → Poem 5 (Vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus) ⓘ
linked to: Poem 5 (Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus)