Author: Catullus, J. W. Mackail (Translator), G. P. Goold (Editor)

ISBN: 9780674990074

publisher: Harvard University Press

publisher Date: 01/28/1913

Price: 26

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Description: Catullus, of Verona, went early to Rome, where he associated not only with other literary men form Cisalpine Gaul but also with Cicero and Hortensius. Tibullus, of equestrian rank and a friend of Horace, enjoyed the patronage of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, whom he several times apostrophizes. The Pervigilium Veneris, a poem of not quite a hundred lines celebrating a spring festival in honor of the goddess of love, is remarkable both for its romanticism which transformed classical into medieval literature.