* English translations of Catullus ' " Lesbia " poems

He made translations of Catullus ( 1870 ) and of Aristophanes ' Acharnians ( 1889 ), in which he successfully reproduced the Dorisms in Low German.

According to an anecdote preserved by Suetonius, Caesar did not deny that Catullus's lampoons left an indelible stain on his reputation, but when Catullus apologized, he invited the poet for dinner the very same day.

All these poems describe the lifestyle of Catullus and his friends, who, despite Catullus's temporary political post in Bithynia, lived their lives withdrawn from politics.

Catullus writes about a former friend named Rufus who betrayed him in an unspecified way, perhaps referring to the affair with Clodia ( usually identified with the loved then reviled " Lesbia " of Catullus's poetry ), the alleged attempt of Caelius to poison her, or subsequent attacks on her through Cicero.

One of Catullus's fiercer examples, expunged from most post-classical collections of his work until the 20th century, is Catullus 16, written against two critics:

Indeed, Catullus was never considered one of the canonical school authors, although his body of work is on the reading lists for American Ph. D. programs in the classics, and is still taught at secondary school level in the United Kingdom.

Catullus described his work as expolitum, or polished, to show that the language he used was very carefully and artistically composed.

* The 16th-century Spanish poet Cristóbal de Castillejo plagiarized Catullus in his well-known work " Dame amor, besos sin cuento ".

The work sets the texts of Catullus to music.

His editions of the Catalecta ( 1575 ), of Festus ( 1575 ), of Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius ( 1577 ), are the work of a man determined to discover the real meaning and force of his author.

His chief work was on Catullus, whom he began to study in 1859.

A few centuries later, the Roman poet Catullus admired Sappho's work and used the Sapphic meter in two poems, Catullus 11 and Catullus 51.

This form continued in popularity through the history of the classical world ; the Roman poet Catullus wrote a famous epithalamium, which was translated from or at least inspired by a now-lost work of Sappho.

He defends his work and his life with equal vigor, appealing to the many poets who had written on the same themes as he — among them Anacreon, Sappho, Catullus, even Homer.

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Later Republican writers, such as Lucretius, Catullus and even Cicero, wrote their own compositions in the meter and it was at this time that many of the principles of Latin hexameter were firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Juvenal.

This notion, however, is much more generally expressed in Latin by placere or delectāre, which are used more colloquially, the latter used frequently in the love poetry of Catullus.

One passage of the Aetia, the so called Coma Berenices, has been reconstructed from papyrus remains and the celebrated Latin adaptation of Catullus ( Catullus 66 ).

About 2 / 3 of the Greek original is now lost, but the full version was translated to Latin by the Roman poet Catullus, and his version exists to this day.

The texts are based on Latin wedding poems by Catullus, as well as Greek poems by Sappho and a small part by Euripides.

: For the more famous Latin poet, see Catullus.

The Europa, along with Callimachus ' Hecale and such Latin examples as Catullus 64, is a major example of the Hellenistic phenomenon of the epyllion.

Some vivid snapshots of daily life are preserved in Latin literary genres such as comedy, satire, and poetry, particularly the poems of Catullus and Ovid, which offer glimpses of women in Roman dining rooms and boudoirs, at sporting and theatrical events, shopping, putting on makeup, practicing magic, worrying about pregnancy — all, however, through male eyes.

Tennyson met him in 1850 and recorded how while another guest fell downstairs and broke his arm, " Old Landor went on eloquently discoursing of Catullus and other Latin poets as if nothing had happened ".

In Latin, the epithalamium, imitated from Fescennine Greek models, was a base form of literature, when Catullus redeemed it and gave it dignity by modelling his Marriage of Thetis and Peleus on a lost ode of Sappho.

At 13 he began to circulate Latin letters ; at 17 he wrote essays in Greek versification ; and at 18 he published an edition of Catullus.

The Latin poet Catullus provides a further example in Poem 8.

The most significant surviving Latin Neoteric is Catullus.

Latin poets normally classified as neoterics are Catullus and his fellow poets such as Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus, Quintus Cornificius etc.

The poem Coma Berenices by Greek poet Callimachus ( lost, but known in a Latin translation or paraphrase by Catullus ), apparently refers to her killing of Demetrius: " Let me remind you how stout-hearted you were even as a young girl: have you forgotten the brave deed by which you gained a royal marriage?

In one of the best-known classical Latin poems of mourning, Catullus writes of his long journey to attend to the funeral rites of his brother, who died abroad, and expresses his grief at addressing only silent ash.

The following Latin text of Catullus 51 is taken from D. F. S. Thomson ; the translation is literal, not literary.

The last words, " Hail and Farewell " ( in Latin, ave atque vale ), are among Catullus ' most famous ; an alternative modern translation might be " I salute you ... and goodbye ".

Asclepiads were used in Latin by Horace in thirty-four of his odes, as well as by Catullus in Poem 30, and Seneca.

As an alternative Festus suggests a connection with fascinus, the Latin word referring to a phallus-shaped amulet used to ward off the evil eye, either because the Fescennina were regarded as a protection against evil influences ( see Munro, Criticisms and Elucidations of Catullus, p. 76 ) or because the phallus, as the symbol of fertility, would from early times have been naturally associated with harvest festivals.

In Latin, the genre grew in prestige and boldness, as major authors including Juvenal and Catullus wrote extended invectives without the cushion of anonymity.

Catullus wrote a poem to Diana in which she has more than one alias: Latonia, Lucina, Iuno, Trivia, Luna.

The pursuit of law had little attraction for him ; he enjoyed more the reading of the ancient classics, especially Ovid, Catullus, and Tibullus.

Como was the birthplace of many historically notable figures, including the ( somewhat obscure ) poet Caecilius who is mentioned by Catullus in the 1st century BCE, the far more substantial literary figures of Pliny the Elder and the Younger, Pope Innocent XI, the scientist Alessandro Volta, and Cosima Liszt, second wife of Richard Wagner and long-term director of the Bayreuth Festival.

*"< u > quam </ u > Catullus < u > unam </ u >/ plus quam se atque < u > suos </ u > amauit < u > omnes </ u >" ( Catullus 58a, " whom alone Catullus loved more than himself and all his own ": " alone " is separated from " whom ," and " all " is placed away from " his own " and after the verb, possibly to emphasize it )

The poem alternates between humility and a self-confident manner ; Catullus calls his poetry " little " and " trifles ", but asks that it remain for more than one age.

" Napkins in Ancient Rome were handmade and therefore far more valuable than they are today ; also, Catullus has a sentimental attachment to the napkins, as they were a gift from two close friends, Fabullus and Veranius.