Catullus
noun
Gaius Valerius 84?–54? b.c., Roman poet.
Catullian
-
a word derived from
Catullus.
Example Sentences
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A few exquisite pieces in Latin literature, the Catullian Ille mi par, for example, a few in our own, such as Jonson's Drink to me only with thine eyes, are translations.
From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by Symonds, John Addington
After dinner he took me to his sanctum, and read me his new Jubilee Ode in Catullian metre, and then “Locksley Hall Sixty Years After.”
From Tennyson and His Friends by Various
Indeed, it is a question whether he has imported any improvement into the rendering of his Galliambics by adopting the Tennysonian rather than the Catullian rhythm and measure.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
He was deep in every department of Catullian lore.
From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas
Some of his elegiacs are not ungrateful to the ear, and it can hardly be doubted that Coleridge borrowed from his eclogue of Strephon and Klaius the pleasing movement of his own Catullian Hendecasyllabics.
From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell
