| 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 |
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