Catullus 6

Catullus 6 is a poem by Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (– BCE) written in Phalaecean hendecasyllabic metre.

Text

Analysis

Flavius is teased about an intrigue which he has in vain tried to conceal. With the general theme, American scholar E. T. Merrill compares Catullus 55.1ff. and Horace, Carmina 1.27; 2.4.

In his Victorian translation of Catullus, R. F. Burton titles the poem "To Flavius: Mis-speaking his Mistress".

References

Sources

• Burton, Richard F.; Smithers, Leonard C., eds. (1894). The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. London: Printed for the Translators: for Private Subscribers. pp. 10–12.
• Merrill, Elmer Truesdell, ed. (1893). Catullus (College Series of Latin Authors). Boston, MA: Ginn and Company. pp. 14–15. <small></small>

Further reading

• Uden, James (2005). "Scortum Diligis: A Reading of Catullus 6". The Classical Quarterly, 55(2). pp. 638–642.

External links

• C. Valerius Catullus. "Catul. 6". Carmina. Leonard C. Smithers, ed. Perseus Digital Library. Retrieved 1 March 2023.