誰がカトゥルスとデートしましたか？

ガイウス・ウァレリウス・カトゥルス（ラテン語: Gaius Valerius Catullus, 紀元前84年頃 - 紀元前54年頃) は、共和政ローマ期の抒情詩人。恋愛詩に優れた。『歌集』(Carmina) が残る。

カトゥルスの恋愛詩は多くはレスビアという女性にあてられているが、これは仮名であり、実名はクローディア・メテッリという貴婦人であると広く信じられてきた。

カトゥルスはギリシア詩壇の影響を受け、精緻な修辞を用い、遊戯的な手法により軽妙な筆致で恋情を歌う詩風により、初期ラテン文学における恋愛詩の分野を開拓した。「私のレスビア、共に生きよう、そして愛し合おう」で始まる『歌集』の第5歌はとりわけ有名である。

Lesbia was the literary pseudonym used by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 82–52 BC) to refer to his lover. Lesbia is traditionally identified with Clodia, the wife of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer and sister of Publius Clodius Pulcher; her conduct and motives are maligned in Cicero's extant speech Pro Caelio, delivered in 56 BC.

Clodia (born Claudia, c. 95 or 94 BC), nicknamed Quadrantaria ("Quarter", from quadrantarius, the price of a visit to the public baths), Nola ("The Unwilling", from the verb nolo, in sarcastic reference to her alleged wantonness), Medea Palatina ("Medea of the Palatine") by Cicero (see below), and occasionally referred to in scholarship as Clodia Metelli ("Metellus's Clodia"), was one of three known daughters of the ancient Roman patrician Appius Claudius Pulcher.

Like many other women of the Roman elite, Clodia was very well-educated in Greek and philosophy, with a special talent for writing poetry. Her life, which was characterized by perpetual scandal, is immortalized in the writings of Marcus Tullius Cicero and, it is generally believed, in the poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus.