The poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus was written towards the end of the Roman Republic in the period between 62 and 54 BC. The collection of approximately...
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Valerius Catullus (Classical Latin: [ˈɡaːius waˈlɛrius kaˈtullus]; c. 84 – c. 54 BC), known as Catullus (kə-TUL-əs), was a Latin neoteric poet of the late...
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Catullus 16 or Carmen 16 is a poem by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC). The poem, written in a hendecasyllabic (11-syllable) meter, was considered...
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This article lists the poems of Catullus and their various properties. Catullus' poems can be divided into three groups: the polymetrics (poems 1–60) the...
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Catullus 101 is an elegiac poem written by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus. It is addressed to Catullus' dead brother or, strictly speaking, to...
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Catullus 51 is a poem by Roman love poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 – c. 54 BC). It is an adaptation of one of Sappho's fragmentary lyric poems, Sappho...
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Catullus 2 is a poem by Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 – c. 54 BCE) that describes the affectionate relationship between an unnamed puella ('girl'...
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Catullus 85 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus for his lover Lesbia. Its declaration of conflicting feelings, "I hate and I love", is renowned for its...
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Catullus 1 is traditionally arranged first among the poems of the Roman poet Catullus, though it was not necessarily the first poem that he wrote. It...
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Catullus 7 is a poem by Catullus addressed to his mistress Lesbia. Similar to Catullus 5, this poem revels in counting kisses, with a touch of stellar...
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Catullus 5 is a passionate ode to Lesbia and one of the most famous poems by Catullus. The poem encourages lovers to scorn the snide comments of others...
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Catullus 3 is a poem by Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 BCE) that laments the death of a pet sparrow (passer) for which an unnamed girl...
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Catullus 12 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus. In it, he chides Asinius Marrucinus for stealing one of his napkins, calling it uncouth and noting the...
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Catullus 4 is a poem by the ancient Roman writer Catullus. The poem concerns the retirement of a well-traveled ship (referred to as a "phaselus", also...
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used as a title, of Carmen 13 from the collected poems of the 1st-century BC Latin poet Catullus. The poem belongs to the literary genre of mock-invitation...
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Catullus 8 is a Latin poem of nineteen lines in choliambic metre by the Roman poet Catullus, known by its incipit, Miser Catulle. The speaker, somewhat...
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Catullus 6 is a Latin poem of seventeen lines in Phalaecean hendecasyllabic metre by the Roman poet Catullus. Flavius is teased about an intrigue which...
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Catullus 64 is an epyllion or "little epic" poem written by Latin poet Catullus. Catullus' longest poem, it retains his famed linguistic witticisms while...
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Catullus 10 is a Latin poem of thirty-four lines in Phalaecean metre by the Roman poet Catullus. Catullus, or the speaker, tells at his own expense how...
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Pro Caelio (category Orations of Cicero)
the poetry of Catullus. Popular critical consensus has long identified Clodia Metelli, who features so prominently in the speech, as Catullus's famed...
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of English translations and adaptations of and from the poetry of Catullus. Tomlinson 1980, p. 53. Tomlinson, Charles, ed. (1980). The Oxford Book of...
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Catullus 9 is a Latin poem of eleven lines in Phalaecean metre by the Roman poet Catullus. Catullus 9 is a Latin poem of eleven lines in Phalaecean metre...
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Gaius Memmius (praetor 58 BC) (category Tribunes of the plebs)
the dedicatee of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, and for his appearances in the poetry of Catullus. Memmius was born around 99 BC, a member of the prominent...
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Neoteric (redirect from Neoteric poetry)
Morgan (ed.). Catullus. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300052008. Frank O. Copley (1957). Catullus—The Complete Poetry. The University of Michigan Press...
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Catullus 63 is a Latin poem of 93 lines in galliambic metre by the Roman poet Catullus. The poem is about the self-mutilation and subsequent lament of...
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text mostly constructed from the poems of Catullus, in which he did address Clodia by the pseudonym Lesbia. Catullus wrote many poems about this relationship...
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Catullus 49 is a poem by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 BC) sent to Marcus Tullius Cicero as a superficially laudatory poem. Like...
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Marcus Caelius Rufus (category Correspondents of Cicero)
the poetry of Catullus under his cognomen Rufus. Rufus in Carmen 69 and 77 as suggested by Riese to be Caelius, rejected by Robinson Ellis. Catullus writes...
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Latin obscenity (section Degrees of obscenity)
out, exhausted from sex' (Catullus 41), diffutūta (Catullus 29, same meaning), and cōnfutuere 'to have sex with' (Catullus 37) are attested in Classical...
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Scots language (category Languages of Ireland)
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was translated into Scots by Rab Wilson and published in 2004. Alexander Hutchison has translated the poetry of Catullus into Scots...
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