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How did Catullus die?
The cause is unknown, but he died in Rome at the age of 30 in 54 B.C.
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What is the summary of Catullus 5?
a translation: Let us live my Lesbia, and let us love, And may we value all the rumors of too strict old men As but one assis/penny. The suns are able to rise and to fall, Fo…r us, when the brief light once falls It is an everlasting night for sleeping. Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, Then another thousand, then a second hundred, Then continuously another thousand, then a hundred. Then when we will have made many thousands, We will confuse them so that we may not know, Or so that anyone evil is not able to envy, When he knows how great (a number) of our kisses. summary: expresses his love to his mistress, Lesbia. Says that although they should be forbidden to kiss, they should still continue their love and ignore those who disapprove (MORE)
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What type of poems did Catullus write?
Gaius Valerius Catullus, most widely known as Catullus, wrote poems which particularly focused on love and lovers. This type of poetry is known as a 'carmen'. Much of his styl…e and content was in emulation of Sappho, a Greek poet from before his lifetime. He also wrote in a couple of different meters, particularly hendecasyllabic and the elegiac couplet. However he, as part of the Neoterics (the Novi Poetae) in Rome, wrote epyllia, light epics, as well. Some of his later poetry took a more solemn tone, often in the form of condolences to friends and families who experienced the death of a loved one. (MORE)
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What did Catullus write?
Catullus wrote 116 short poems, which were divided into 3 main groups. Poems 1-60 were the "Nugae," which translates to "Nonsense" Poems 61-68 were the "Carmina Docta" which …were the longer, but still relatively short epics Poems 69-116 were epigrams Most famous were poems 5 (addressed to his mistress) , 85 "Odi et Amo," and 101 about a trip to his brother's grave. (MORE)
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Did Catullus write any books?
No, he wrote a series of poems which was grouped into a work called his Carmina
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Catullus poem 6?
Flavius, unless she were unpretty and inelegant, you would want to speak of your darling to Catullus and you wouldn't be able to keep quiet, but you love s…ome feverish harlot. You are ashamed to admit this. For your bed shouts that you, vainly quiet, do not lie for empty nights fragrant with garlands and Syrian ointment, and the bolster equally worn away on this side and that, and the creaking and movement of your shaking bed. There's no point in being quiet about your debauchery. Why? You would not reveal such tired from debauchery flanks unless you were up to something silly. Therefore tell us whatever you have, whether its good or bad. I want to describe you and your love to the sky in my nice little verse. (MORE)
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What are some literary techniques of catullus 1?
Here is a short list of poetic devices used by Catullus: Alliteration | - repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more closely situated word / Anaphora | - repet…ition of a word at the beginning of a successive phrases or clauses / Assonance | - the close recurrence of similar vowel sounds / Asyndenton | - the absence of conjunction / Chiasmus | - an arrangement of pairs of words in opposite order within a line or between lines / Consonance | - the close recurrence of similar constant sounds / Diminutive | - words with suffixes, like -ellus, -ollus, -ullus, that denote smallness and are used to express affection, delicacy, humor or mockery / Hendiadys | - the use of two nouns joined by a conjunction in place of an expected noun and adjective / Hyperbole | The use of exaggeration / Irony | A device by which a speaker or writer expresses one meaning but expects the audience to be aware of another usually opposite meaning / Litotes | A figure of speech in which a statement is made through the negation of its opposite / Metaphor | An implied comparison between things without the words like or as / Oxymoron | A contradictory statement / Parody | An imitation of a conventional literary form or theme in a lighthearted or ridiculing manner / Persona | The projection of one or several aspects of a writer's personality / Polysyndenton | The use of more conjunctions than necessary / Repetition | The use of the same word or phrase two or more times in a poem to emphasize a point of feeling / Tone | The poet's attitude towards the subject matter / Transferred epithet | Adjective used to describe one noun instead of another that it would normally modify (MORE)
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Was virgil a better poet than catullus?
Depends upon what you mean by "better"... Is an apple 'better' than a pear? Is South Carolina 'better' than Georgia? I'd say that Virgil is generally held in greater esteem as… a Classical poet than Catullus. Virgil's great work, the Æneid, is hard to surpass. ............................................................................................................................ (MORE)