Author: Gaius Valerius Catullus

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Published: 1988

Total Pages: 416

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TIBULUS (Albius, c. 54-19 B.C.), of equestrian rank and a friend of Horace, enjoyed the patronage of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, whom he several times apostrophizes. Three books of elegies have come down to us under his name, of which only the first two are authentic. Book I mostly proclaims his love for Delia, Book 2 his passion for Nemesis. The third book consists of a miscellany of poems from the archives of Messalla; it is very doubtful whether any come from the pen of Tibullus himself. But a special interest attaches to a group of them which concern a girl called Sulpicia: some of the poems are written by her lover Cerinthus, while others purport to be her own composition.