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Then, like Vergil, he seems to have turned from rhetoric to philosophy, from philosophy to poetry, and to poetry of the Catullan romances, as a matter of course.

From Vergil A Biography by Frank, Tenney

There are more harsh elisions in the Ciris than in the poet's later work, reminding one again of Catullan technique.

From Vergil A Biography by Frank, Tenney

But to trace these ideals in their contact with Vergil's mental development, we must look back for a moment to the tendencies of the Catullan age from which he was emerging.

From Vergil A Biography by Frank, Tenney

Both Tennyson and Swinburne tried the Catullan hendecasyllabics.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

But, leaving this aside, what is more inept than the verse Harsh and troublesome, by Jupiter!, however Catullan.

From An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams by Cunningham, J. V. (James Vincent)