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Tennyson, A.A. Markley, 539-557 (Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature IV).

Bibliographies of Catullus


Quinn The Lesbia Poems n25 (94)

Harrauer (1979) A Bibliography to Catullus

 * 110, 227, 251, 260, 261, 1345–1349, 2201, 2391, 2453c, 2744
 * vs. 2: 2621a
 * 3–6: 2186; 3: 2404, 2409; 4: 2369, 2404; 5: 227, 2258, 2369, 2404; 7: 227, 2530; 8: 2574; 11: 2621a; 13–17: 227; 13: 2404; 14: 2404, 2409; 16: 879; 18: 2574; 19–24: 2186; 19–20: 2621a; 21: 2404, 2621a; 22–23: 227, 2404; 24: 1349

Holoka

 * Cèbe "Catulle et la physiognomonie" Annales de la Faculté des lettres d'Aix 43 1967 174-178.
 * Cèbe "Catulle et la physiognomonie" Annales de la Faculté des lettres d'Aix 43 1967 174-178.

Others

 * K. Quinn ANRW 1. 3. (1973)





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Allen, W. 1973. Accent and Rhythm. Prosodic Features of Latin and Greek: A Study in Theory and Reconstruction. Cambridge. (allen:1973 p146)

Williams 1968
Google books 492 "interest in the Individual" "Another reminiscence of Catullus in this section of Books i–iii is in iii.23, which uses the motif of Catullus 42 for its own purpose. Propertius laments the loss of his writings-tablets (doctae...tabellae); here doctae has a strong overtone of the early meaning of 'clever', for the poet recalls how successful the tablets were in persuading girls (5–10). Then he wonders what message the tablets contained: perhaps it was 'No', accompanied by reproaches (11–14); but perhaps it was 'Yes' (15–18). At this point the reader must realize that the tablets were lost after being sent to a girl whose reply Propertius was awaiting . The tone changes, the poet imagines them being used by a miser for his accounts ; he offers gold for their return, and orders his slaves to post up a public notice of their loss. The changes from Catullus 42 are characteristic: first, there is no suggestion of delinquency on the girl's part (which confines the drama within the poet's own mind); secondly—and proceedings from this—the poet experiences several changes of feeling and a galvanic urge to action as the thought occurs to him that the girl may have been sending the message ' Yes '. It is a poem which—like Catullus 42—makes very good use of the dramatic technique in Chapter IV, whereby the understanding of the situation is largely left to the reader's imagination. There is also something symbolic in a poem recording the loss of these writing - tablets so close to the poems which record the end of the affair. If there is a connection with Catullus 42, the interesting idea may be suggested that Propertius felt inclined to identify the moecha putida of that poem as Lesbia -- an identification to which the word moecha may have lent colour, since Catullus cannot have wished to use that word to a mere meretrix. If this suggested relationship to Catullus is correct it means that not only did Propertius imitate the cycle of poems with the unifying theme of Lesbia by constructing a very much larger scale of love - poetry, covering three whole books, but he also imitated certain points of arrangement in a different way in his own collection. All this depends on recognizing that however Propertius" ...