It was probably in Rome that Catullus fell deeply in love with the " Lesbia " of his poems, who is usually identified with Clodia Metelli, a sophisticated woman from the aristocratic house of patrician family Claudii Pulchri and sister of the infamous Publius Clodius Pulcher.

One such poem with insight to the reasons of his parting with " Lesbia " is poem 11, which is addressed to his companions Furius and Aurelius and requests them simply to pass a farewell insult to Lesbia.

In modern times, the resulting identification of Lesbia with Clodia Metelli, based largely on her portrayal by Cicero, is usually treated as accepted fact, despite occasional challenges.

Silphium as Laserpicium makes an appearance in a poem ( Catullus 7 ) of Catullus to his lover Lesbia ( though others have suggested that the reference here is instead to silphium's use as a treatment for mental illness, tying it to the ' madness ' of love ).

In his book Catullan Questions, T. P. Wiseman argues that the identification of Lesbia as one of Clodius Pulcher ’ s three sisters is undeniable.

Thus, the Lesbius in that poem is Clodius Pulcher, and Lesbia must be one of his three sisters.

Catullus ’ Rufus, though, is portrayed as a competing lover of Lesbia, and thus could be the same Caelius Rufus featured in Cicero ’ s speech who, of course, had an affair with Clodia Metelli.

Nonetheless, Wiseman concludes that while it is certain Lesbia was one of Clodius ’ three sisters named Clodia, it is impossible to determine which of these she was.

One major potential connection between Lesbia and Clodia Metelli is the similarity between implications of incest apparent in Catullus 79 and the Cicero ’ s charges of incest in the Pro Caelio.

However, this association is weakened somewhat by James L. Butrica ’ s argument in “ Clodius the Pulcher In Catullus and Cicero .” He emphasizes the prominence of the word pulcher in Catullus ’ s poem and acknowledges that it identifies the character Lesbius with Clodius Pulcher and Lesbia with Clodia Metelli.

Although Watts is widely praised for extending Swinburne's life and encouraging his enthusiasm for the landscape verse that was amongst the best of his later works, Watts has been castigated for sabotaging the completion of Swinburne's erotic sadomasochistic novel Lesbia Brandon but he was not able to wean Swinburne from his interest in flagellation.

* In I, Claudius, a novel by Robert Graves, Livilla is called ' Lesbia ', a name alluding to the island where she was born.

It may be significant that a poem which looks like an envoi to Lesbia ( Catullus 11 ) is written in the Sapphic metre ; the only other poem in the collection composed in this metre is poem 51, which looks like it could be the first poem written to her.

Lesbia is traditionally identified with Claudia Metelli Celeris ( uxor ), the Clodia of Cicero's extant speech ( of March 56 BC ) Pro Caelio, and the elder sister of Publius Clodius Pulcher.

" Lesbia and the sparrow is dead ".

Catullus 85 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus for his mistress Lesbia.

Catullus 2 is a poem by Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus ( c. 84 – c. 54 BC ) that describes the affectionate relationship between an unnamed " puella " ( possibly Catullus ' lover, Lesbia ), and her pet sparrow.

The meter is elegiac couplet, which was usually employed in love poetry, such as Catullus ' addresses to Lesbia.

Catullus ' love poem " Vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus " in the translation by Ben Jonson was set to music ( lute accompanied song ) by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger.

The story tells of Catullus, a lovesick young man who falls in love with Lesbia, a woman who does not remain faithful to him.

The poet Catullus wrote several love poems concerning a frequently unfaithful woman he called Lesbia, identified in the mid-second century AD by the writer Apuleius ( Apologia 10 ) as a " Clodia.

* English translations of Catullus ' " Lesbia " poems

Cerinthus was most likely a pseudonym, in the style of the day ( e. g. Catullus ' Lesbia, Ovid's Corinna ).

Catullus addresses a number of poems to " Lesbia ," a married woman with whom he has an affair, usually identified as a fictionalized Clodia, sister of the prominent popularist politician Clodius Pulcher.

Popular critical consensus has long identified Clodia Metelli, who features so prominently in the speech, as Catullus ’ famed lover Lesbia.

The 2nd century writer Apuleius claimed that Catullus gave his lover Clodia the pseudonym Lesbia ; Wiseman traces Apuleius ’ s source for this claim to the historian Suetonius, and Suetonius ’ sources to C. Julius Hyginus ’ s De Vita Rebusque Illustrium Virorum.

Hyginus had contact with several men associated with Catullus who very likely knew Lesbia ’ s true identity.

Catullus writes about a former friend named Rufus who betrayed him in an unspecified way, perhaps referring to the affair with Clodia ( usually identified with the loved then reviled " Lesbia " of Catullus's poetry ), the alleged attempt of Caelius to poison her, or subsequent attacks on her through Cicero.

In the view of Peter Green, "' Cynthia ' was the pseudonym which Propertius used to indicate his mistress Hostia in his poems ; the girl who wept for her sparrow was ' Lesbia ,' the mistress of Catullus, whose real name was Clodia.

Lesbia was the literary pseudonym of the great love of Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus ( ca.

Lesbia and Her Sparrow ( Catullus 2 ), by Sir Edward John Poynter

This could well be Catullus ' Lesbia before she became his own lover.

* erotic poems: some of them indicate homosexual penchants ( 50 and 99 ), but most are about women, especially about one he calls " Lesbia " ( which served as a false name for his married girlfriend, Clodia, source and inspiration of many of his poems ).

* invectives: often rude and sometimes downright obscene poems targeted at friends-turned-traitors ( e. g., poem 30 ), other lovers of Lesbia, well-known poets, politicians ( e. g., Julius Caesar ) and rhetors, including Cicero.

All of his poetry shows strong and occasionally wild emotions especially in regard to Lesbia.

* Danny Maher – Minstead ( 1901 ), Flotsam ( 1902 ), Lesbia ( 1907 ), Bayardo ( 1908 ), Lemberg ( 1909 ), Corcyra ( 1913 )

Cinna the Poet and other Roman Essays ( Leicester University Press, 1974 ), especially chapter 5: " Lesbia and her Children " ( 104-118 )

For example, he applies the word fides, which traditionally meant faithfulness towards one's political allies, to his relationship with Lesbia and reinterprets it as unconditional faithfulness in love.

" A couple of decades later, the Melbourne anarchist feminist poet Lesbia Harford also championed free love.

* Amanti latini, la storia di Catullo e Lesbia ( con Carlo Frabetti, 2001 )

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* 5-uiuamus mea Lesbia.

A recent article by the Roman historian Suzanne Dixon argues against not only the Lesbia / Clodia identification but also the notion that ' Lesbia ' refers to a historical woman at all.

Simo and Davus overhear Mysis and Lesbia, who in the course of their conversation reveal that Pamphilus has made a pledge to support Glycerium's child.