When one searches on Amazon for `Catullus` and sees the many translations and other books about him, some quite recent (Catullus' Bedspread is especially intere

When one searches on Amazon for `Catullus` and sees the many translations and other books about him, some quite recent (Catullus' Bedspread is especially interesting https://www.amazon.com/Catullus-Bedspread-Life-Romes-Erotic/dp/0062317032 https://www.amazon.com/Catullus-Bedspread-Life-Romes-Erotic/...), the following, from another great Roman poet, comes to mind: exegi monumentum aere perennius regalique situ pyramidum altius, quod non imber edax, non Aquilo inpotens possit diruere… (Odes III: XXX, lines 1-4, published 23BC) (I have built a monument more lasting than bronze, higher than the Pyramids’ regal structures, that no consuming rain, nor wild north wind can destroy…) https://collation.folger.edu/2016/03/more-lasting-than-bronze/ If you haven't yet read the one about Lesbia and her sparrow you're missing a great poem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_2)!