I prefer Catullus because he has a lot more satire in his poems and he is more down to earth than Horace. Horace's poems are very good but they are harder to translate because he tends to run on in his sentences; making finding the verb harder than it should be. Horace's poems have a very good message as well, and tend to be outright philosophical whereas Catullus hides his philosophy in his satire which in some ways makes him the wiser of the two. Overall Catullus humor and stories win me over hands down.
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