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CATULLUS. |
| Contrast to the poetry of Lucretius | 408 |
| The poetry of youth | 409 |
| Accidental preservation of the poems | 410 |
| Principle of their arrangement | 412 |
| Vivid personal revelation afforded by them | 413 |
| Uncertainty as to the date of his birth | 414 |
| Birth-place and social standing | 417 |
| Influences of his native district | 419 |
| Identity of Lesbia and Clodia | 422 |
| Poems written between 61 and 57 b.c. | 425 |
| Poems connected with his Bithynian journey | 429 |
| Poems written between 56 and 54 b.c. | 433 |
| Character of his poems, founded on the passion of love | 436 |
| " "" "on friendship and affection | 439 |
| His short satirical pieces | 444 |
| Other poems expressive of personal feeling | 450 |
| Qualities of style in these poems | 452 |
| "of rhythm | 453 |
| "of form | 454 |
| The Hymn to Diana | 455 |
| His longer and more purely artistic pieces | 456 |
| His Epithalamia | 457 |
| His Attis | 461 |
| The Peleus and Thetis | 462 |
| The longer elegiac poems | 469 |
| Rank of Catullus among the poets of the world | 472 |
