CATULLUS 97: AEMILIUS IS A REAL STINKER
Abstract
Catullus 97 has received scant attention from scholars. Harrauer's bibliography lists scattered references to the poem in a few general works, but no article on the poem itself (1979:102, 169); during the eleven year period 1979-1990, L'Annee Philologique lists one paper (to which I shall refer below). Commentaries are generally dismissive (e.g. Merrill 1900:211 "An exceedingly coarse epigram on a certain Aemilius, of whom nothing further is known") or vague (e.g. Quinn 1970:434 "A savage, if genially exuberant, attack on an unknown Don Juan"): Fordyce omits the poem altogether, believing that there were a "few poems which do not lend themselves to comment in English" (1961:preface).
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2014-03-30
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