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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84–c. 54 B.C.)

Catullus, Caius Valerius (ka-tul’us). The greatest of Roman lyric poets (c. 84–54 B.C.); born at Verona. Of his compositions 116 have come down to our time. The finest are those ‘To Lesbia’; ‘The Boat’; and ‘Address to Himself.’ (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).