Roman attitudes to love+relationships

E to claudia

‘she loved her husband with all her heart’

Cicero

‘Quintus sent something from the table to her, which she sent back’

Catullus

‘give me 1000 kisses, then 100’

‘where the girl was leading loved by me’

Horace

‘i have lived until recently, attracted to girls’

Martial

‘you are pleasing and bitter at the same time’

Ovid

‘in time, the difficult young come to the plough’

Pliny

‘out of love for me, she developed an interest in literature’

‘she loves me, which is a sign of her faithfulness’