person
Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus of Verona, the great lyric and elegiac poet of the late Republic.
Reading notes
- The Loves §3.9 Catullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus of Verona, here greeting Tibullus's shade in Elysium.
- Sorrows §2.1 Catullus
The Roman elegist who sang his mistress under the name Lesbia and confessed many loves, yet went uncensured.