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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 style 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.

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