Word: catullus
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...last page is a salutation from the actors to the audience, composed by Professor M. H. Morgan and modelled after the first ode of Catullus. The two inside pages contain the announcement of the cast and others who have had some important connection with the production of the play. In place of the Roman aediles, who used to proclaim the celebrations on festival days and meet the expenses, Professor George M. Lane and Professor Clement L. Smith appear as "proclaimers" of the play. The managers were the three professors, Jacob B. Greenough, Frederic D. Allen, and Morris H. Morgan...
...Holmes' third paper of his "Over the Tea Cups," commences with a general talk of the company upon the subject of the last paper; then a witty comparison of Hadrian's hymn and Catullus' poem to Lesbia's sparrow, and the paper ends with a poem alluding to James Freeman Clarke a classmate of Dr. Holmes. The paper abounds in gentle satiric touches, which are full of the wisdom...
...Catullus, selections, based upon the editions of Riese. By Thomas B. Lindsay, Ph. D., professor in Boston University...
...regret that lack of space prevents my speaking at greater length of the exceptional merit of the translations given in "Some Studies in Catullus." In many instances they surpass for perfection of rendering and beauty of English, the translations of Leigh Hunt and a host of other poets, not to speak of the clumsy productions of a pedantic Munroe. It gives an admirer of Catullus intense pleasure to see his spirit caught so thoroughly and rendered so well in our mother-tongue...
...highest praise-and this is not exaggerated-which one can bestow on these translations, is the desire which grows in the reader of seeing all of Catullus works rendered so well. This essay and its precursor in a number of last year, are a worthy addition to the small stock of literature that is growing up around Rome's truest lyric poet...