Word: catullus
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...lend their efforts to Latin B make the best of a difficult piece of work. Admittedly, the material which comes to them from Latin A and from preparatory schools is too much bound by fealty to the dictionary to appreciate to the fullest the sweet words of Horace and Catullus. This granted, the course is, from a cultural aspect, one of the most valuable of the many language courses open to Freshmen. The second half-year's work, which anyone may take, as a half-course, takes up the important poets Horace and Catullus. Catullus is treated summarily...
...became his station, he did deliver himself of an heroic ode, Brittannia Victrix, but a delicate bit called "Cheddar Pinks" in his new book is more characteristic. Indeed, so lost in pure artistry is Laureate Bridges that he quite forgot himself in a satiric bit addressed "To Catullus," referring to his immediate predecessors, Laureates Tennyson and Austin, as "those two pretty Laertes of Eng-land...
...bulk of verses shows a healthy interest on the part of the Advocate board, whose president, Mr. W. C. Sanger, Jr., '16, contributes perhaps the most distinguished poem, "To a Young Girl." Mr. Putnam '18, with "Storm," and Mr. Cutler '16, with a translation from Catullus, add good things to the number. In spite of an imitative and derivative air about most of these productions, patent confessions of the amateur's willingness of spirit and lack of skill, there is much promise and considerable present fulfilment. It is somewhat surprising not to find the poets rhyming about matters more pressing...
Classical Philology 67.--Catullus and the Elegiac Poets. Tuesday, Thursday, at 3.30, and a third hour. Mr. Fobes...
Seminary of Classical Philology. Open Meeting. On the Chronology of the Poems of Catullus. Mr. W. B. McDaniel. Sever...