Catullus 51 is a poem by Roman love poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 – c. 54 BC). It is an adaptation of one of Sappho's fragmentary lyric poems, Sappho 31. Catullus replaces Sappho's beloved with his own beloved Lesbia. Unlike the majority of Catullus' poems, the meter of this poem is the sapphic meter. This meter is more musical, seeing as Sappho mainly sang her poetry.
Catullus is not the only poet who translated Sappho’s poem to use for himself: Pierre de Ronsard and Salvatore Quasimodo are also known to have translated a version of it.
fragmentary lyric poems, Sappho 31. Catullus replaces Sappho's beloved with his own beloved Lesbia. Unlike the majority of Catullus' poems, the meter of this poem...
Gaius Valerius Catullus (Classical Latin: [ˈɡaːiʊs waˈɫɛriʊs kaˈtʊllʊs]; c. 84 – c. 54 BC), known as Catullus (kə-TUL-əs), was a Latin neoteric poet of...
Author:Gaius Valerius Catullus at Wikisource Poems of Catullus at Project Gutenberg Catullus's work in Latin and over 25 other languages at Catullus Translations...
Catullus 5 is a passionate ode to Lesbia and one of the most famous poems by Catullus. The poem encourages lovers to scorn the snide comments of others...
This article lists the poems of Catullus and their various properties. Catullus' poems can be divided into three groups: the polymetrics (poems 1–60)...
Catullus 8 is a Latin poem of nineteen lines in choliambic metre by the Roman poet Catullus, known by its incipit, Miser Catulle. The speaker, somewhat...
Catullus 64 is an epyllion or "little epic" poem written by Latin poet Catullus. Catullus' longest poem, it retains his famed linguistic witticisms while...
Catullus 11 is a poem by Catullus. Poem 11 is one of the two poems that Catullus writes in the Sapphic meter. The other, poem 51, is Catullus' version...
translations of the poem into modern languages derived from Catullus' re-visitation of the poem, Catullus51, painting Sappho with a green taint of jealousy. D'Angour's...
Catullus 63 is a Latin poem of 93 lines in galliambic metre by the Roman poet Catullus. The poem is about the self-mutilation and subsequent lament of...
Catullus 6 is a Latin poem of seventeen lines in Phalaecean hendecasyllabic metre by the Roman poet Catullus. Flavius is teased about an intrigue which...
Catullus 9 is a Latin poem of eleven lines in Phalaecean metre by the Roman poet Catullus. Catullus 9 is a Latin poem of eleven lines in Phalaecean metre...
Catullus admired Sappho's work and used the Sapphic stanza in two poems: Catullus 11 (commemorating the end of his affair with Clodia) and Catullus 51...
Catullus 10 is a Latin poem of thirty-four lines in Phalaecean metre by the Roman poet Catullus. Catullus, or the speaker, tells at his own expense how...
written by Catullus, who lived in the 1st century BCE during the time of the Roman Republic. This poem addresses common themes of Catullus' poetry such...
Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 – c. 54 BCE) was a Latin poet and a leading figure of the Neoterics. Catullus and his poetry, comprising 113 poems, have...
of Carmen 13 from the collected poems of the 1st-century BC Latin poet Catullus. The poem belongs to the literary genre of mock-invitation. Fabullus is...
of Catullus' 116 surviving poems, and these display a wide range of emotions (see Catullus 85), ranging from tender love (e. g. Catullus 5, Catullus 7)...
Catullus 36 is a Latin poem of twenty lines in Phalaecean metre by the Roman poet Catullus. Catullus calls upon the Annales Volusi (lit. 'Annals of Volusius')...
Catullus 86 is a Latin poem of six lines in elegiac couplets by the Roman poet Catullus. On the inferiority of Quintia to Lesbia, Catullus further treats...
The Rufus of 77 is a one-time friend of Catullus, who has wronged him by stealing his happiness. Since Catullus and Caelius were of similar character and...
Catullus in English. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-042415-6. Harrauer, Hermann [in German] (1979). "Translations: English". A Bibliography to Catullus....
charges the young people to listen to "the songs of Catullus". The story proper tells of Catullus, a lovesick young man who falls in love with Lesbia...
Catullus 42 is a Latin poem of twenty-four lines in Phalaecean metre by the Roman poet Catullus. E. T. Merrill describes the female figure of the poem...
Until the 1940s, Catullus' 64th poem was considered to be the inspiration, due to the fact that it includes multiple images from Catullus' poem, such as...
chance alone. Unlike Catullus, later poets show a definite trend toward ending the pentameter with a two-syllable word. In Catullus the proportion of disyllabic...
out, exhausted from sex" (Catullus 41), diffutūta (Catullus 29, same meaning), and cōnfutuere "to have sex with" (Catullus 37) are attested in Classical...
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