Main List
The table below lists all of Catullus' extant poems, with links to the full text, the poetic meter, the number of lines, and other data. The entire table can be sorted according to any column by clicking on the arrows in the topmost cell. The "Type" column is color-coded, with a green font indicating poems for or about friends, a magenta font marking his famous poems about his Lesbia, and a red font indicating invective poems. The "Addressee(s)" column cites the person to whom Catullus addresses the poem, which ranges from friends, enemies, targets of political satire, one sparrow and, of course, Lesbia.
| Poem | Text | Meter | # lines | Type | Themes | Addressee(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 10 | Friends | Gifts to friends, poems | Cornelius Nepos |
| 2 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 13 (10) | Lesbia | A young woman and her pet bird | Lesbia's sparrow |
| 2b | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 3 | Lesbia | Atalanta | |
| 3 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 18 | Lesbia | Eulogy to the girlfriend's pet bird | Orcus |
| 4 | Latin English | iambic trimeter (senarius) | 27 | Miscellaneous | An old boat, once fast, entering retirement | A little boat |
| 5 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 13 | Lesbia | Brief lives and many kisses | Lesbia |
| 6 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 17 | Friends | Uncovering a friend's love life | Flavius |
| 7 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 12 | Lesbia | Never growing tired of kissing | Lesbia |
| 8 | Latin English | choliambic | 19 | Lesbia | Getting over getting dumped | Himself |
| 9 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 11 | Friends | A friend's homecoming | Veranius |
| 10 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 34 | Invective | Caught in a boast | Varus' girlfriend |
| 11 | Latin English | Sapphic stanza | 24 | Lesbia | Dumping a promiscuous girlfriend | Furius and Aurelius |
| 12 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 17 | Invective | Shaming a napkin thief | Asinius Marrucinus |
| 13 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 14 | Friends | Partying on a friend's dime | Fabullus |
| 14 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 23 | Invective | Despising pompous poetry | Bad poets |
| 14b | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 3 | Miscellaneous | Risqué poetry | His readers |
| 15 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 19 | Invective | Hands off my boy-toy (cf. 21) | Aurelius |
| 16 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 14 | Invective | Nasty reply to critics | Aurelius and Furius |
| 17 | Latin English | priapean | 26 | Invective | My friend, the utter dunce | |
| 21 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 13 | Invective | Hands off my boy-toy (cf. 15) | Aurelius |
| 22 | Latin English | choliambic | 21 | Invective | Everyone deceives themselves | Suffenus |
| 23 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 27 | Invective | Nasty insults to whole family | Furius |
| 24 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 10 | Invective | Don't give in to his seductions! | Furius |
| 25 | Latin English | iambic tetrameter catalectic | 13 | Invective | Give me back my stuff, expressed beautifully | Thallus |
| 26 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 5 | Invective | Losing the farm to debt | Furius |
| 27 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 7 | Miscellaneous | Out with water, in with wine! | His cupbearer |
| 28 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 15 | Invective | Screwed over by politicians | Memmius |
| 29 | Latin English | iambic trimeter (senarius) | 25 | Invective | Waste of money by politicians | Mamurra |
| 30 | Latin English | greater Asclepiadean | 12 | Invective | Boyfriends can't be trusted (cf. 70) | Alfenus |
| 31 | Latin English | choliambic | 14 | Miscellaneous | A hymn to homecoming | Sirmio |
| 32 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 11 | Friends | Really interested | Ipsitilla |
| 33 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 8 | Invective | Father thief, son gigolo | Vibennius, Sr. and Jr. |
| 34 | Latin English | glyconic (3) / pherecratean (1) | 24 | Miscellaneous | Hymn to Diana | Diana |
| 35 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 18 | Friends | Please don't go | His papyrus |
| 36 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 20 | Lesbia | Burning bad poetry to win love | Annals of Volusius |
| 37 | Latin English | choliambic | 20 | Lesbia | Girlfriend left for richer men | Egnatius |
| 38 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 8 | Friends | Why aren't you conforting me? | Cornificius |
| 39 | Latin English | choliambic | 21 | Invective | Smiling hypocrite | Egnatius |
| 40 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 8 | Invective | Threatening a romantic rival | Ravidus |
| 41 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 8 | Invective | woman asking for money (political) | Ameana |
| 42 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 24 | Invective | the effectiveness of politeness | |
| 43 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 8 | Invective | Insulting Mamurra's girlfriend | Ameana |
| 44 | Latin English | choliambic | 21 | Invective | Head colds and cold writing | Sestius |
| 45 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 26 | Friends | Over-the-top love poem | |
| 46 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 11 | Miscellaneous | the springtime urge to wander | |
| 47 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 7 | Invective | unworthy become rich | Porcius and Socration |
| 48 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 6 | Friends | Kissing | Juventius |
| 49 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 7 | Invective | Praise (?) of a politician | Cicero |
| 50 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 21 | Friends | Exchanging poetry between friends | Calvus |
| 51 | Latin English | Sapphic stanza | 16 | Lesbia | The feeling of love; translation of Sappho | Lesbia |
| 52 | Latin English | iambic trimeter | 4 | Invective | Nonius | |
| 53 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 5 | Invective | Vatinianus | |
| 54 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 7 | Invective | Otho, Libo and Sufficio | |
| 55 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic (decasyllabic) | 33 | Friends | Camerius | |
| 56 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 7 | Friends | Cato | |
| 57 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 10 | Invective | Julius Caesar and Mamurra | |
| 58 | Latin English | hendecasyllabic | 5 | Lesbia | Caelius | |
| 58b | Latin English | hendecasyllabic (decasyllabic) | 10 | Friends | Camerius | |
| 59 | Latin English | choliambic | 5 | Invective | Rufa and Rufulus | |
| 60 | Latin English | choliambic | 5 | Invective | ||
| 61 | Latin English | glyconic (4) / pherecratean (1) | 231 | Friends | Marriage hymn on occasion of friends' wedding | Junia and Manlius |
| 62 | Latin English | dactylic hexameter | 66 | Miscellaneous | Girls and boys share views on marriage | Wedding guests |
| 63 | Latin English | galliambic | 93 | Miscellaneous | Attis, who castrated self to be with Cybele | Attis |
| 64 | Latin English | dactylic hexameter | 408 | Miscellaneous | Mini-epic about the wedding of Peleus and Thetis | Theseus, Ariadne, Peleus and Thetis |
| 65 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 24 | Friends | Writing poetry after his brother's death | Hortalus |
| 66 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 94 | Miscellaneous | translation of Callimachus | Berenice |
| 67 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 48 | Miscellaneous | A door | |
| 68 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 160 | Lesbia | Manius | |
| 69 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 10 | Invective | Clean up your act! | Rufus |
| 70 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Lesbia | Girlfriends can't be trusted (cf. 30) | |
| 71 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | ||
| 72 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 8 | Lesbia | Lesbia | |
| 73 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | ||
| 74 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | Gellius | |
| 75 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Lesbia | Lesbia | |
| 76 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 26 | Lesbia | The gods | |
| 77 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | Rufus | |
| 78 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | Gallus | |
| 78b | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Invective | ||
| 79 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Lesbia | Lesbius | |
| 80 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 8 | Invective | Gellius | |
| 81 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Friends | Juventius | |
| 82 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Friends | Quintius | |
| 83 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Lesbia | Lesbia's husband | |
| 84 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 12 | Invective | Arrius | |
| 85 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 2 | Lesbia | Inner turmoil | |
| 86 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Lesbia | ||
| 87 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Lesbia | Lesbia | |
| 88 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 8 | Invective | Gellius | |
| 89 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | Gellius | |
| 90 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | Gellius | |
| 91 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 10 | Lesbia | Gellius | |
| 92 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Lesbia | ||
| 93 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 2 | Invective | Julius Caesar | |
| 94 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 2 | Miscellaneous | Cock | |
| 95 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 10 | Invective | Volusius | |
| 95b | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 10 | Miscellaneous | Antimachus | |
| 96 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Friends | Elegy Friends's lover | Calvus |
| 97 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 12 | Invective | Aemilius | |
| 98 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | Victius | |
| 99 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 16 | Friends | Juventius | |
| 100 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 8 | Friends | Caelius | |
| 101 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 10 | Friends | An elegy for a brother | His brother |
| 102 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Friends | Cornelius Nepos | |
| 103 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Invective | Silo | |
| 104 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Lesbia | ||
| 105 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 2 | Miscellaneous | Cock | |
| 106 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 2 | Miscellaneous | ||
| 107 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 8 | Lesbia | Lesbia | |
| 108 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Invective | Cominius | |
| 109 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Lesbia | Lifelong love | Lesbia and the gods |
| 110 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 8 | Invective | Aufilena | |
| 111 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Invective | Aufilena | |
| 112 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 2 | Invective | Naso | |
| 113 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 4 | Invective | Maecilia | |
| 114 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 6 | Miscellaneous | Cock | |
| 115 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 8 | Miscellaneous | Cock | |
| 116 | Latin English | elegiac couplets | 8 | Invective | Gellius |
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