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Catullus addresses a Rufus in Carmen 69, and a Caelius in 58.
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Catullus and addresses
* Archibald MacLeish wrote a poem entitled " You Also, Gaius Valerius Catullus ," where he addresses the poet.
Catullus addresses a number of poems to " Lesbia ," a married woman with whom he has an affair, usually identified as a fictionalized Clodia, sister of the prominent popularist politician Clodius Pulcher.
The meter is elegiac couplet, which was usually employed in love poetry, such as Catullus ' addresses to Lesbia.
Catullus and Rufus
Clodia maintained several other lovers, including Marcus Caelius Rufus, Catullus ' friend.
Moreover, scholars have widely assumed that the characters Caelius and Rufus who feature in several poems of Catullus should be identified with the defendant of the Pro Caelio, Caelius Rufus.
On the contrary, Wiseman proves that Caelius Rufus could not have been Catullus ’ Caelius because the latter was Veronese while the former was certainly not.
Catullus ’ Rufus, though, is portrayed as a competing lover of Lesbia, and thus could be the same Caelius Rufus featured in Cicero ’ s speech who, of course, had an affair with Clodia Metelli.
He may be the Rufus named in the poems of Catullus.
Caelius may appear in the poetry of Catullus under his cognomen Rufus.
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.
Catullus lambastes this Rufus in a epigram that ends:
Catullus and Carmen
* Catullus purified: a brief history of Carmen 16 by Thomas Nelson Winter
Other than epitaphs, examples of ancient elegy as a poem of mourning include Catullus ' Carmen 101, on his dead brother, and elegies by Propertius on his dead mistress Cynthia and a matriarch of the prominent Cornelian family.
Virgil draws on the neoteric poets at times, and Catullus Carmen 64 very likely had a large impact on the epyllion of Aristaeus that ends the Georgics 4.
Catullus and Caelius
* The Venus Throw ( 1995 ), featuring the poet Catullus, is set during the trial of Marcus Caelius in 56 BC for the murder of Dio of Alexandria.
Catullus and 58
According to Quintilian ( 10. 1. 58 ) he was the chief of the elegiac poets ; his elegies were highly esteemed by the Romans ( see Neoterics ), and imitated by Ovid, Catullus, and especially Sextus Propertius.
Catullus and .
* Catullus, LXIV.
Gaius Valerius Catullus ( ca.
Catullus came from a leading equestrian family of Verona in Cisalpine Gaul, and according to St. Jerome, he was born in the town.
In one of his poems Catullus describes his happy return to the family villa at Sirmio on Lake Garda near Verona.
Catullus appears to have spent most of his young adult years in Rome.
His friends there included the poets Licinius Calvus, and Helvius Cinna, Quintus Hortensius ( son of the orator and rival of Cicero ) and the biographer Cornelius Nepos, to whom Catullus dedicated a libellus of poems, the relation of which to the extant collection remains a matter of debate.
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.
It was probably in Rome that Catullus fell deeply in love with the " Lesbia " of his poems, who is usually identified with Clodia Metelli, a sophisticated woman from the aristocratic house of patrician family Claudii Pulchri and sister of the infamous Publius Clodius Pulcher.
In his poems Catullus describes several stages of their relationship: initial euphoria, doubts, separation, and his wrenching feelings of loss.
There survives no ancient biography of Catullus: his life has to be pieced together from scattered references to him in other ancient authors and from his poems.
Though upon his elder brother's death Catullus lamented that their “ whole house was buried along ” with the deceased, the existence ( and prominence ) of Valerii Catulli is attested in the following centuries.
Wiseman argues that after the brother's death Catullus could have married, and that, in this case, the later Valerii Catulli may have been his descendants.
After his rediscovery in the late Middle Ages, Catullus again found admirers.
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.
There is no scholarly consensus on whether Catullus himself arranged the order of the poems.
* condolences: some poems of Catullus are solemn in nature.
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.
Above all other qualities, Catullus seems to have valued venustas, or charm, in his acquaintances, a theme which he explores in a number of his poems.
But it is not the traditional notions Catullus rejects, but rather their particular application to the vita activa of politics and war.
So, despite seeming frivolity of his lifestyle, Catullus measured himself and his friends by quite ambitious standards.
Catullus and Callimachus did not describe the feats of ancient heroes and gods ( except perhaps in re-evaluating and predominantly artistic circumstances, e. g. poems 63 and 64 ), focusing instead on small-scale personal themes.
addresses and 69
Later revisions allowed multiple addresses in addition to X. 121 addresses to be carried on the same DTE-DCE interface: Telex addressing ( F. 69 ), PSTN addressing ( E. 163 ), ISDN addressing ( E. 164 ), Internet Protocol addresses ( IANA ICP ), and local IEEE 802. 2 MAC addresses.
addresses and .
He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses or even zone numbers.
Secondly, a whole series of addresses and actions by the Pope and by others show that concern for Christian unity is still very much alive and growing within the Church.
Two of the principal addresses were delivered by prominent Protestants, and when the speaker was a Catholic, one `` discussant '' on the dais tended to be of another religious persuasion.
Morning sessions included addresses by Ward Miller, Jr. of the U. S. Dept. of Commerce.
The formula for computing random addresses from the form of each occurrence will not give a distinct address for each distinct form.
Hence, the description of each text occurrence can be retrieved by reading the list of text-ordered information-cell addresses and outputting the description indicated by the information cell for each occurrence.
The questionnaires were mailed in Seattle, Washington, and sent by regular mail to addresses in the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.
Airmail was used for the addresses outside the Pacific Northwest.
Each letter contained a postage-prepaid return envelope by regular mail for addresses in the Pacific Northwest, and by airmail for those outside the Pacific Northwest.
Instead, we became involved in a series of friendly, but overly formal, welcoming addresses to which we had no choice but to reply in kind.
As the child addresses the shepherd in a dream, light -- in the form of the major mode -- begins to appear, and at the moment of the miracle we hear a clear and shining D major.
The assignment of actual addresses to symbolic index word and electronic switch names occurs in Phase 3, of the Autocoder processor.
During the first pass of Phase 3,, references to the actual addresses of index words and electronic switches are collected and the availability table is updated.
These addresses are calculated automatically by the processor.
With names and addresses listed, verification came next.
Publisher Richardson has updated the Blue Book `` but it still remains the compact reference book used by so many for those ever-changing telephone numbers, addresses, other residences, club affiliations and marriages ''.
Others listed at new addresses are the Richard T. Olerichs, the Joseph Aderholds Jr., the Henri De La Chapelles, the John Berteros and Dr. and Mrs. Egerton Crispin, the John Armisteads, the Allen Chases, the Howard Lockies, the Thomas Lockies, and Anthony Longinotti.
He does not mean, in fact he addresses himself specifically to reject the proposition, that `` if we took the risk of surrendering, a new generation in Britain would soon begin to amass its strength in secret in order to reverse the consequences of that surrender ''.
Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer -- `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him -- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic universe.
Use of the video arraignment process addresses the problems associated with having to transport offenders.
It also addresses the rising costs of transportation.
He addresses the problem of an innocent child's suffering and says it is a test of a Christian's faith, since it requires him either to deny everything or believe everything.
It is wrong when it tends otherwise " He holds the view that an adequate environmental ethic — one that addresses actual environmental concerns — must be intrinsically holistic.
Some opcodes require one or more operands as part of the instruction, and most assemblers can take labels and symbols as operands to represent addresses and constants, instead of hard coding them into the program.
alt = President John F. Kennedy addresses a joint session of Congress, with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn seated behind him
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