Catullus

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

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

These, I think, were the most remarkable of the Catullus poems he showed me, though of course there were others.

This is more tender in feeling than any poem by Catullus or Tibullus.