Catullus – How many kisses (Carmen VII)
Henryk Siemiradzki, Following the example of the Gods, 1899 How many kisses satisfy, you ask; how many overwhelm? As if you’d make reckoning of the grains of Libyan desert sand in Cyrene, where the sylphium grows, between the oracle of sweltering Jove and the sacred tomb of old Battus – or catalogue the stars that …