Commentary on Catullus (Latin) Machine readable text


Commentary on Catullus (Latin)
By E. T. Merrill
Edited by: E. T. Merrill

Cambridge Harvard University Press 1893


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Introduction.
   Early Lyric Poetry at Rome.
   Catullus.
   Date of birth and of death.
   Family and circumstances.
   Education
   Lesbia.
   Journey to Bithynia.
   Later years. Relations with Caesar.
   Poems.
   Manuscripts.
   Friends and foes.
   Metres.
   Prosody.

Introduction.
   Early Lyric Poetry at Rome.
   Catullus.
   Date of birth and of death.
   Family and circumstances.
   Education
   Lesbia.
   Journey to Bithynia.
   Later years. Relations with Caesar.
   Poems.
   Manuscripts.
   Friends and foes.
   Metres.
   Prosody.

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Introduction.

Prosody.
 
Commentary on line 8

dabis: the elision of final s occurs only here in Catullus, though often found in Cicero's juvenile verses and in Lucretius, as well as in the earlier writers (see Cic. Or. 161).