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Catullus and writes
The Roman Catullus writes that Conon " discerned all the lights of the vast universe, and disclosed the risings and settings of the stars, how the fiery brightness of the sun is darkened, and how the stars retreat at fixed times.
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.

Catullus and about
Catullus was also an admirer of Sappho, a female poet of the 7th century BC, and is the source for much of what we know or infer about her.
In fact, Catullus may have brought about a substantial revival of that form in Rome.
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.
* " The Poem of Catullus about Attis ," Translation by Eli Siegel
When the Zmyrna was completed in about 55 BC Catullus hailed it as a great achievement, nine harvests and nine winters in the making.

Catullus and former
Of the former class, the epithalamia of Catullus, founded on an imitation of Pindar, present us with examples of strophe, antistrophe and epode ; and it has been observed that the celebrated ode of Horace, beginning Quem virum aut heroa lyra vel acri, possesses this triple character.
On the contrary, Wiseman proves that Caelius Rufus could not have been CatullusCaelius because the latter was Veronese while the former was certainly not.

Catullus and friend
* lines 12. 93-130 – Catullus has heirs, so the narrator is acting as a friend not a legacy-hunter ( captator ).
Catullus received a book of bad poems by " the worst poet of all time " as a joke from a friend.
Clodia maintained several other lovers, including Marcus Caelius Rufus, Catullus ' friend.
His son Quintus Hortensius, a friend of the poet Catullus, was granted the governorship of Macedonia in 44 by Julius Caesar, before switching allegiance to Brutus and perishing after the debacle of the battle of Philippi in 42 BC.
He was a friend of Catullus, who dedicates his poems to him ( I. 3 ), Cicero and Titus Pomponius Atticus.
Son of Licinius Macer and thus a member of the gens Licinia, he was a friend of the poet Catullus, whose style and subject matter he shared.
With the wealth of the Imperial Age, several important figures decided to build their villae in Trastevere, including Clodia, ( Catullus ' " friend ") and Julius Caesar ( his garden villa, the Horti Caesaris ).
He was a friend of Catullus ( poem 10, 29 – 30: meus sodalis / Cinna est Gaius ).

Catullus and named
In the course of his research he discovered an important early manuscript of Catullus, named the Codex Oxoniensis.
The Roman poet Catullus had a villa here, and visitors can see a ruined Roman spa named the Grotte di Catullo ( Grotto of Catullus ) although there is no evidence linking him to this particular building.
A famous poem by the Roman poet Catullus, criticizing a Gaul named Egnatius, reads:
He may be the Rufus named in the poems of Catullus.

Catullus and Rufus
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.
CatullusRufus, 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.
Caelius may appear in the poetry of Catullus under his cognomen Rufus.
Catullus lambastes this Rufus in a epigram that ends:
Catullus addresses a Rufus in Carmen 69, and a Caelius in 58.

Catullus and who
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.
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.
* The webcomic Achewood refers to Catullus as " the first poet who ever got his Bone on.
Authors whose epigrams survive include Catullus, who wrote both invectives and love epigrams – his poem 85 is one of the latter.
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.
Catullus was influenced by both archaic and Hellenistic Greek verse and belonged to a group of Roman poets called the Neoteroi (" newer poets "), who spurned epic poetry, following the lead of Callimachus, and instead composed brief highly polished poems in various thematic and metrical genres.
With the exception of a few major writers, such as Cicero, Caesar, Lucretius and Catullus, ancient accounts of Republican literature are glowing accounts of jurists and orators who wrote prolifically but who now can't be read because their works have been lost, or analyses of language and style that appear insightful but can't be verified because there are no surviving instances.
The orchestra only plays in the framework story, whereas in the Catullus play itself, the soloists are only accompanied by the chorus, who takes the part of a Greek choros.
The story tells of Catullus, a lovesick young man who falls in love with Lesbia, a woman who does not remain faithful to him.
Landor received a visit from his son Arnold in 1842 and in that year wrote a long essay on Catullus for Forster who was editor of " Foreign Quarterly Review " and followed it up with The Idylls of Theocritus.
Popular critical consensus has long identified Clodia Metelli, who features so prominently in the speech, as Catullus ’ famed lover Lesbia.
Hyginus had contact with several men associated with Catullus who very likely knew Lesbia ’ s true identity.
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.
In the view of Peter Green, "' Cynthia ' was the pseudonym which Propertius used to indicate his mistress Hostia in his poems ; the girl who wept for her sparrow was ' Lesbia ,' the mistress of Catullus, whose real name was Clodia.
Catullus is not the only poet who translated Sappho ’ s poem to use for himself: Pierre de Ronsard is also known to have translated a version of it.
The tone is grief-stricken and tender, with Catullus trying to give the best gift he had to bestow ( a poem ) on his brother, who was taken prematurely.

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