Catullus

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1. Catullus - Noun

2. Catullus - Proper noun

Meaning

Roman lyric poet remembered for his love poems to an aristocratic Roman woman (84-54 BC)

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When Catullus expresses his love and hate for Lesbia, he is not obviously voicing a wish to rid himself of one or the other of these two sentiments. Not all contradictions resolve into temporal change of belief or desire. Raymond Geuss

All shuffle there; all cough in ink; All wear the carpet with their shoes; All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbour knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way? William Butler Yeats

Catullus twice used a meter that Sappho developed, called the Sapphic strophe in poems 11 and 51. In fact, Catullus may have brought about a substantial revival of that form in Rome. Source: Internet

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

"Carmina Catulli" is a song cycle arranged from 17 of Catullus' poems by American composer Michael Linton. Source: Internet

Catullus 51 follows Sappho 31 so closely that some believe the later poem to be, in part, a direct translation of the earlier poem, and 61 and 62 are certainly inspired by and perhaps translated directly from lost works of Sappho. Source: Internet

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