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Catullus, Caius Valerius
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The great Latin lyric poet, born at Verona, a man of wealth and good standing, being, it would seem, of the equestrian order; associated with the best wits in Rome; fell in love with Clodia, a patrician lady, who was the inspiration, both in peace and war, of many of his effusions, and whom he addresses as Lesbia; the death of a brother affected him deeply, and was the occasion of the production of one of the most pathetic elegies ever penned; in the civic strife of the time he sided with the senate, and opposed Cæsar to the length of directing against him a coarse lampoon (84-54 B.C.).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Catullus, Caius Valerius'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/catullus-caius-valerius.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Catullus, Caius Valerius'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/catullus-caius-valerius.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.