Catullus

Roman poets such as Catullus and Ovid celebrated the kiss and members of the populace were avid mouth-to-mouth practitioners.

Catullus bitterly complains of the selfishness of Memmius, who had kept for himself all the plunder of Bithynia.

It had no resemblance to the seducing voluptuousness of Ovid, any more than the elegant indecencies of Catullus.

Perhaps the best thing in this world is youth, and the poetry of Catullus is its very incarnation.

Burns had the richer nature and was the greater as a man; Catullus was the more accomplished artist.

But on the other hand, Catullus is the least didactic of poets.