Catullus in a sentence

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.

Musical settings Catullus Dreams (2011) is a song cycle by David Glaser set to texts of Catullus.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Domitianus and Catullus (or, less frequently, year 826 Ab urbe condita ).

Bithynia within the Roman Empire 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.

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.

Catullus, as was common to his era, was greatly influenced by stories from Greek and Roman myth.

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

Catullus, for example, allows an elision across the caesura in 18 cases, a rare flaw in the later poets (Ovid, for example, never does this).

However Catullus does not reject traditional notions, but rather their particular application to the vita activa of politics and war.

Indeed, Catullus' work was never canonical in schools, although his body of work is still frequently read from secondary school to graduate programs across the world.

In his poems Catullus describes several stages of their relationship: initial euphoria, doubts, separation, and his wrenching feelings of loss.

In that case, young Horace could have felt himself to be a Roman T. Frank, Catullus and Horace, 133–34 A. Campbell, Horace: A New Interpretation, 84 though there are also indications that he regarded himself as a Samnite or Sabellus by birth.

Lesbia, known for having multiple suitors, always showed little affection towards Catullus.

M. Skinner, Authorial Arrangement of the Collection, pp. 46–48, in: A Companion to Catullus, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.

So, despite seeming frivolity of his lifestyle, Catullus measured himself and his friends by quite ambitious standards.

Tennyson, however, maintained the quantitative features of the metre: :O you chorus of indolent reviewers, :Irresponsible, indolent reviewers, :Look, I come to the test, a tiny poem :All composed in a metre of Catullus..

The narrator describes to his addressee Corvinus the sacrificial vows that he has made for the salvation of his friend Catullus from shipwreck.

There is no scholarly consensus on whether Catullus himself arranged the order of the poems.

The short love lyrics of Catullus are noted for their emotional intensity.

Through these poets—and in comparison with the earlier Catullus—it is possible to trace specific characteristics and evolutionary patterns in the Roman form of the verse: *The Roman authors often write about their own love affairs.