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Oh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is! — Catullus

Poem

Oh this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!

In the original Latin

O saeclum insapiens et infacetum!

Catullus
Carmina · 54 BC
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Other tags relating to this quote
Topic
Moral declineDecline
Statement type
Lament
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. 43, l. 8.
Original citation
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. Carmina. c. 1481, no. 43, l. 8.

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