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Catullus is renowned for his love poems, particularly the 25 poems addressed to a woman named Lesbia, of which Catullus 5 is perhaps the most famous. Scholars generally believe that Lesbia was a pseudonym for Clodia and that the name Lesbia is likely an homage to Sappho, who came from the isle of Lesbos .
poems to and about his friends (e.g., an invitation like poem 13). erotic poems: some of them about his attraction for a boy named Juventius, but others about women, especially about one he calls "Lesbia" (which served as a false name for his married girlfriend, Clodia, source and inspiration of many of his poems).
Poem 68a, like 65, is a short epistle, apparently introducing the poem which follows, even though the name of the addressee, Mallius, does not seem to match that of 68b. In the epistle Catullus again mentions the death of his brother, and excuses himself from writing a learned poem since he is in Verona and does not have his library with him.
1.4 - He attends a dinner party; the poem is mostly a list of secret instructions to his lover, who is also attending the party along with her husband. 1.5 - He describes a visit Corinna, here named for the first time, makes to his rooms. 1.6 - He begs the doorkeeper to let him into the house to see his love. 1.7 - He hits his lover and is ...
1797, December 12 To a Young Ass: Its Mother being tethered near it. "Poor little Foal of an oppresséd race!" 1794 1794, December 30 Lines on a Friend who Died of a Frenzy Fever induced by Calumnious Reports. "Edmund! thy grave with aching eye I scan," 1794 1796 To a Friend [Charles Lamb] together with an Unfinished Poem.
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