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Since 1995 this site has been the place to find translations of the poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus. Many, many contributors have created a collection containing over 1200 versions of Catullus poems in over 33 different languages.

... the odd phenomenon of "homophonic translation"-rendering a poem into English not (primarily) by dictionary meaning but by phonetic similarity. As far as I know (and Silliman agrees), the first practitioner of the art was Louis Zukofsky in his 1969 b