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Catullus (Catullus)

Catullus wrote short personal poems: love, insult, and grief. Many are in lyric meters or elegiac couplets, not in epic hexameter.

Grades 7–8. Authors and genres.

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He is a poet of one person's feelings, not a historian.

Latin words that go with this card: carmen, amor.

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