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It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-cherished love. — Catullus

Poem

It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-cherished love.

In the original Latin

Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem,

Catullus
Carmina · 54 BC
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Topic
Lost loveBroken heartLove
Medium
Poem
Time
54 BCClassical antiquity
Person
Catullus
Provenance
Current citation
Cattulus, Gaius Valerius. The Poems of Catullus, translated by Guy Lee. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 76, l. 13.
Original citation
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. Carmina. c. 1481, no. 76, l. 13.

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