CHAPTER XV

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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.

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