Catullus

[ kuh-tuhl-uh s ]

/ kəˈtʌl əs /

Ga·ius Va·le·ri·us

[gey-uh s vuh-leer-ee-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs vəˈlɪər i əs/,84?–54? b.c., Roman poet.

OTHER WORDS FROM Catullus

Ca·tul·li·an

[kuh-tuhl-ee-uh n] /kəˈtʌl i ən/, adjective

Roman poets such as Catullus and Ovid celebrated the kiss and members of the populace were avid mouth-to-mouth practitioners.

The History of Kissing |Sheril Kirshenbaum |February 13, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Burns had the richer nature and was the greater as a man; Catullus was the more accomplished artist.

Ephemera Critica |John Churton Collins
These, I think, were the most remarkable of the Catullus poems he showed me, though of course there were others.

Tennyson and His Friends |Various
This is more tender in feeling than any poem by Catullus or Tibullus.

The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times |Alfred Biese

How much of Lucretius (or Petronius or Catullus, before cited) was then known?

Imaginary Conversations and Poems |Walter Savage Landor
The authors of their predilection were Catullus, Propertius, and Tibullus.

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7) |John Addington Symonds

Catullus

/ (kəˈtʌləs) /

Gaius Valerius (ˈɡaɪəs vəˈlɪərɪəs). ?84–?54 bc, Roman lyric poet, noted particularly for his love poems

Catullan (kəˈtʌlən), adjective