I studied Latin in school, and we studied Catullus 85 and 5 (which is mentioned in 16).<p>We discovered there was a book of English translations of Catullus in the library, which we used to "help" with our homework. I'm pretty sure it didn't contain 16, because we would definitely have noticed. :p
I have always loved that the man who wrote the absolutely shattering elegy that gave us the phrase "hail brother and farewell" (Catullus 101) also gave us this.<p>It's good for poets to have breadth of expression.