Catullus: Poems

Catullus, who lived from about 84 to 54 BC, was one of ancient Rome''s most gifted, versatile and passionate poets. Living at a time of radical social change at the end of the Roman Republic, he belonged to a group of young poets who embraced Hellenistic forms to forge a new literary style, the so-called ''neoterics''.

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