Chapter XV: Catullus

Contrast to the poetry of Lucretius 399
The poetry of youth 400
Accidental preservation of his poems 401
Principle of their arrangement 402
Vivid personal revelation afforded by them 404
Uncertainty as to the date of his birth 405
Birth-place and social standing 408
Influences of his native district 410
Identity of Lesbia and Clodia 412
Poems written between 61 and 57 B.C. 414
Poems connected with his Bithynian journey 418
Poems written between 56 and 54 B.C. 421
Character of his poems, founded on the passion of love 424
" " " on friendship and affection 426
His short satirical pieces 430
Other poems expressive of personal feeling 437
Qualities of style in these poems 438
" of rhythm 439
" of form 440
The Hymn to Diana 441
His longer and more purely artistic pieces 442
His Epithalamia 443
His Attis 447
The Peleus and Thetis 448
The longer elegiac poems 455
Rank of Catullus among the poets of the world 457

CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA.

Page xii, line 25 from top, _for_ Ampitryo _read_ Amphitryo.
" 43, note, _for_ Altus _read_ Attus.
" 90, line 26 from top, _for_ Fos _read_ Flos.
" 157, note 2, add the words, 'Terence, who was by birth a
foreigner, was probably brought to Rome as a child.'
" 194, line 25 from top, _for_ The Italian liveliness, &c.,
made them, _read_ Their liveliness, &c., made the Italians.
" 194, third line from bottom, _for_ nisim _read_ nisam.
" 213, line 12 from top, _for_ Æschylus _read_ Æschinus.
" 215, note, _for_ debacehentur _read_ debacchentur.
" 230, foot of the page, _for_ divitias _read_ divitiis.
" 287, line 12 from top, _for_ arbonis _read_ arboris.
" 289, line 16 from top, _for_ ardera _read_ ardua.
" 289, line 32 from top, _for_ and _read_ or.
" 296, line 9 from bottom, _for_ by _read_ to.
" 343, line 7 from bottom, _for_ fungiferentis _read_
frugiferentis.
" 413, note 1, add the words, 'Cicero also, in his letters to
Caelius, addresses him as mi Rufe,' Ep. II. 9. 3, 12. 2.

THE ROMAN POETS OF THE REPUBLIC.