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The Poems and Fragments of Catullus

by Catullus

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The complete poems of the Roman lyricist, from the sparrow of Lesbia and the bitter epigrams on rivals to the wedding hymns and the strange, frenzied Attis. Robinson Ellis, an Oxford editor of the Latin text, tries to keep the original glyconics, hendecasyllables and galliambics in English, with a preface explaining his method and notes.

An unusual experiment in translation that gives a real sense of how Catullus sounded. Download the free EPUB.

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