The time is the first century B.C. Too many men have too much money, too much power, and too few principles. The Republic is falling apart... In this era the rebel Roman poet Catullus wrote as no Roman had ever written before, of love and hate, friend and enemy, of the colorful, amusing, and sometimes infuriating life of Rome in the days of Caesar. The e. e. cummings of his day, Catullus knew the poetry of slang and obscenity, the doggerel of the tavern and the dinner table as well as the lyric. Brilliantly translated by Frank O. Copley, Catullus' immortal poetry once again comes to life.