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...

Lesbia was a figure in Roman poetry. Lesbia can also refer to: Lesbia Castillo, Venezuelan politician Lesbia Harford (1891–1927), Australian poet, novelist...

Lesbia is a one-act play written by Richard Davey. The story is a comedy about the relationship between the Roman poet Catullus and his lover Lesbia. The...

Catullus 5 is a passionate ode to Lesbia and one of the most famous poems by Catullus. The poem encourages lovers to scorn the snide comments of others...

Catullus apologized, he invited the poet for dinner the very same day. The "Lesbia" of his poems is usually identified with Clodia Metelli, a sophisticated...

a Song of the Saints of God" is a Christian hymn written in Britain by Lesbia Scott and first published in 1929. The hymn is little-known in Britain,...

Lesbia Brandon is an erotic novel written by Algernon Charles Swinburne between 1859 and 1868, but suppressed because it was considered pornographic in...

Colias lesbia is a species of butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Neotropical realm. Specimens from south Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina...

Lesbia Venner Harford (née Keogh, 9 April 1891 – 5 July 1927) was an Australian poet, novelist and political activist. She was one of the first women to...

however, identifies Clodia with Lesbia primarily on the basis of Catullus 79.1-2: Lesbius is beautiful. Why not? And Lesbia prefers him to you and your whole...

which Catullus expresses his love for the woman he calls Lesbia. If Catullus's girlfriend Lesbia is, as is usually assumed, a pseudonym for Clodia, the...

Catocala lesbia is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Hugo Theodor Christoph in 1887. It is found in the Middle East, in regions without...

Lesbia Thorpe (in private life Lee Baldwin) (1919–2009) was an Australian artist, possibly best known for her printmaking. From 1931 to 1937 Thorpe studied...

Lesbia Castillo is a Venezuelan politician. She was National Assembly deputy for Carabobo from 5 January 2011 until 5 January 2016, where she was a member...

Lesbia Soravilla (22 May 1906 – January 1989) was a Cuban writer, feminist and activist, prominent in the feminist movement of the 1920s and 1930s. Her...

named Lesbia, of which Catullus 5 is perhaps the most famous. Scholars generally believe that Lesbia was a pseudonym for Clodia and that the name Lesbia is...

Lesbia Claudina Vent Dumois (born 1932) is a contemporary Cuban visual artist, whose works include illustration, painting, art curation, and engraving...

Acalyptris lesbia is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is only known from Skala Kallonis on Lesbos in Greece. The wingspan is 4-4.8 mm. The larvae...

Lesbia Yaneth Urquía (1967 - 6 July 2016) was a Honduran human rights activist. She was an advocate for the environment. Lesbia Urquía was a community...

elegiac couplets by the Roman poet Catullus. On the inferiority of Quintia to Lesbia, Catullus further treats in 43.1ff. Quintia is evidently not the Sister...

poems, Sappho 31. Catullus replaces Sappho's beloved with his own beloved Lesbia. Unlike the majority of Catullus' poems, the meter of this poem is the sapphic...

The black-tailed trainbearer (Lesbia victoriae) is a species of hummingbird in the family Trochilidae. It is found between 2500 and 3800m in Colombia,...

sparrow (passer) for which an unnamed girl (puella), possibly Catullus' lover Lesbia, had an affection. Written in hendecasyllabic meter, it is considered to...

himself to return Lesbia's coldness with coldness. E. T. Merrill says the puella (lit. 'girl') of this poem is undoubtedly Lesbia, given the affection...

mens deducta tuā mea Lesbia culpa Taking mea with Lesbia this line reads: To this point, (my) mind is reduced by your guilt, my Lesbia. The correct way to...

Clodia has been identified with some probability with the poet Catullus's Lesbia. Caelius was charged with vis (political violence), one of the most serious...

Mordellistena lesbia is a beetle in the genus Mordellistena of the family Mordellidae. It was described in 1965 by Ermisch. Mordellidae Species List at...

Catullus 85 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus for his lover Lesbia. Its declaration of conflicting feelings, "I hate and I love", is renowned for its...

(poem 85) "Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus" (poem 5) "Ille mi par esse deo videtur" (poem 51) "Caeli! Lesbia nostra, Lesbia illa" (poem 58) "Nulli se...

Catullus 7 is a poem by Catullus addressed to his mistress Lesbia. Similar to Catullus 5, this poem revels in counting kisses, with a touch of stellar...