Catullus 9

Catullus 9 is a Latin poem of eleven lines in Phalaecean metre by the Roman poet Catullus.

Analysis
Catullus 9 is a Latin poem of eleven lines in Phalaecean metre by the Roman poet Catullus.

E. T. Merrill calls the poem "an expression of joy" over the return of Veranius, the poet's friend, from Spain. Such expeditions to the colonies on the part of young Romans of that day were common: compare Fabullus in Catullus 28.

In his Victorian translation of Catullus, R. F. Burton titles the poem "To Veranius returned from Travel".