How To Use Catullus In A Sentence
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It refers to the fact that before Catullus and his poems to Lesbia, there was really no such thing as love poetry in the fullest sense, and that the romantic elegy was the invention of a later poet, Propertius.
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Whereupon Catullus called Nonius a scab or impostume though he sat in his chair of estate. [
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
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A man of great culture and a noted literatus, Atticus had a hobby that eventually earned him a lot of money; he published the works of famous Roman authors from Catullus to Cicero and Caesar.
Antony and Cleopatra
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Catullus, the great lyric poet of Caesar's Rome, is known to many as the author of the ‘Lesbia’ poems, drum-tight epigrams in which he beats his explorations of love, longing, betrayal, and loss.
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One thinks of Yeats's poem on another delinquent genius, Catullus.
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Thou mightest as well prophesy that humane letters shall be cultivated in Caledonia, or the muse of Catullus spring up in the chill and unknown
Rome in the First and Nineteenth Centuries
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The accident of its being the only Latin poem extant in the peculiar galliambic metre has combined with the nature of the subject [3] to induce a tradition about it as though it were the most daring and extraordinary of Catullus 'poems.
Latin Literature
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Ignotus pecori, 'as eulogised by the virgin-chorus in the beautiful epithalamium of Catullus, might be recognised in the youthful' religieuse 'if only human passion could be excluded; but the story of Heloise and Abelard is not a solitary proof of the superiority of human nature over an impossible and artificial spirituality.
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
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In Catullus, he sets himself a new and fascinating challenge: he tries to imitate in English all Catullus's meters - sapphics, hendecasyllabics, iambics, choliambics, even galliambics.
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Catullus and his crew think of themselves as the new neoterics.
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Other measures, used with more or less success, are the iambic scazon, [123] the chorianibic, the glyconic, and the sapphic, all probably introduced from the Greek by Catullus.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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Figure after figure they live before us, till the procession culminates with the crowning horror of the blind delator, L. Valerius Catullus
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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In verse writing he was of Catullus 'school, composing at least one epyllion, besides lyric verse.
Vergil
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His hendecasyllables are both a tribute to Catullus and an interpretation of one aspect of his poetry.
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If to recall good deeds erewhiles performed be pleasure to a man, when he knows himself to be of probity, nor has violated sacred faith, nor has abused the holy assent of the gods in any pact, to work ill to men; great store of joys awaits thee during thy length of years, O Catullus, sprung from this ingrate love of thine.
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
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Old Fotheringay creaked out a farewell poem in Latin modelled on Catullus, while we applauded at the wrong place.
The Vatican Rip
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In a word, it was Catullus and Calvus, the lyric poets, who made it possible for the next generation to reject Catullus and Calvus the neoteric romancers.
Vergil
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The hendecasyllable and scazon of Catullus became part and parcel of the poetic heritage of Rome, and Martial employs them only less happily than their matchless creator.
Horace
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Catullus says, “Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, in vento —” What a memory mine is!
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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This is the only instance where Catullus has introduced a spondee into the second foot of the phalaecian, which then becomes decasyllabic.
Poems and Fragments
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In the series of dactylic lines 17-22, Catullus no doubt intended to convey the idea of rapidity, as, in the spondaic line immediately following, of labour.
Poems and Fragments
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A reader, who asks to remain anonymous, says that, once while participating in an intensive Latin program, he passed the time by making Catullus poems into limericks.
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English sixteenth centuries, and the alembicated exquisiteness of Catullus and Carew; he does not dislike Webster because he is not Dryden, or Young because he is not Spenser; he does not quarrel with Sophocles because he is not Æschylus, or with Hugo because he is not Heine.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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The son of a wealthy Verona businessman, Catullus arrived in Rome in his early twenties and rapidly evolved from educated but provincial outsider to streetwise society songmeister.
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Other measures, used with more or less success, are the iambic scazon, [123] the chorianibic, the glyconic, and the sapphic, all probably introduced from the Greek by Catullus.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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Catullus brings forth the frenzied, almost feral, aspects of Bacchus's followers driven mad with drunkenness and hedonism, whereas Ovid concentrates on the romantic or emotional experience of Bacchus and Ariadne's encounter.
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In the series of dactylic lines 17-22, Catullus no doubt intended to convey the idea of rapidity, as, in the spondaic line immediately following, of labour.
Poems and Fragments
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Yet is there no competent Judge that findeth them wanting in those Ancient ones, and that doth not much more admire that smoothly equall neatnesse, continued sweetnesse, and flourishing comelinesse of Catullus his Epigrams, than all the sharpe quips and witty girds wherewith Martiall doth whet and embellish the conclusions of his.
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