The meter is elegiac couplet, like so many of his other poems about Lesbia.Īronson, Andrew C.
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After the injury which Catullus refers to (presumably Lesbia has cheated on him), his love is no longer pure, but full of disrespect and even hatred (which he discusses later in Catullus 85, Odi et Amo). Catullus uses the image here of a father's love for his children because that is an innocent, pure love. 2b.13, he is referring simply to the meter, since the scansion is his. As was the case with most upper class Roman marriages, Clodia. Her family was of old, Patrician, noble stock and she was married to an older, prominent and powerful man, the proconsul Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer. I think that my translation is for the most part successful at drawing this out. This is masterly literary self-parody: uibrare iambos refers to Catullus invective poetry, of which this very poem is, at one level, an example (3), and Lesbia. Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84-54B.C.) had a passionate love affair with a woman named Clodia. This one contains some weird imagery: we find Catullus comparing his love for Lesbia to the love that a father has for his children (actually the Latin, literally translated, is "sons and sons-in-law", but gnati is used in other poems to mean both sons and daughters, and he adds et generos because sons-in-law were classically considered to be within the "protective concern" of the father). Catullus and the Programmatic Poem: The Origins, Scope, and Utility of a Concept. Catullus 72 is characterised by fascinating dichotomies: present emotion is set against past feeling, and carnal love juxtaposed with affectionate friendship and familial love. Yet another Catullus poem in which he discusses his love for Lesbia. Qui potis est, inquis? Quod amantem iniuria talis Nunc te cognovi: quare etsi impensius uror, How is this possible, you ask? Because an injury of this kindįorces a lover to love more, but like less.ĭilexi tum te non tantum ut vulgus amicam, Now I know you: and now the more strongly I burn with love for you, Then I loved you not as any man loves his friend, Lesbia, and you didn't want to hold anyone but me Glossary of Poetic Terms Search the glossary Meter The rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse. You said one day that you knew only Catullus,
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