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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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)