Catullus 6

Catullus 6 is a Latin poem of seventeen lines in Phalaecean hendecasyllabic metre by the Roman poet Catullus.

Analysis
Flavius is teased about an intrigue which he has in vain tried to conceal. With the general theme, 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".