37+ Famous Latin Love Poems Pictures. From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. There are many, many translations of the bigger names dating back to the 15th century so you'll have your choice — i've linked easily available ones but i didn't really try to find the best ones since poetry is so hard to translate.
Some of the phrases are themselves translations of greek phrases, as greek rhetoric and literature reached its peak centuries before that of ancient rome.
He's the one who famously asked lesbia to give him a thousand kisses and then a thousand more in order to confound the old men. If you're looking for short love messages or short romantic poems, this is the place. Most of them are rather upbeat, except for the short poem by catullus, 'odi et amo'. Latin love poems and verse quotes.