Category Archives: Catullus

It Takes an O to Make a Ring: Catullus 50.21

Posted on Wednesday: March 8, 2017 by Michael Hendry

Just uploaded: a textual note on Catullus, titled as above: PDF. Comments, anyone?

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Catullus 16.14: Ring Composition with a Twist?

Posted on Monday: March 6, 2017 by Michael Hendry

Just uploaded: another conjecture, this one in Catullus: PDF. I suspect it will amuse more than it persuades.

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Catullus 33: Helping Out in the Family Business?

Posted on Wednesday: March 1, 2017 by Michael Hendry

I have just written an exegetical note (2 pages – 476 words) on Catullus 33 – one of the “few poems which for good reason are rarely read” left out of Fordyce’s edition. Rather than pasting in the whole note … Continue reading →

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Catullus 41: Is the Line-Order as Screwed Up as the Subject?

Posted on Wednesday: September 28, 2016 by Michael Hendry

    I quote the whole poem, since it is so short, with Mynors’ apparatus, which is conveniently sized for my purposes:(1) Anneiana puella defututa, tota milia me decem poposcit, ista turpiculo puella naso, decoctoris amica Formiani. propinqui, quibus est puella curae, … Continue reading →

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Female Turpitude Meets Male Torpitude (Catullus 11.18)

Posted on Wednesday: March 9, 2016 by Michael Hendry

    Daniél Kiss’s Catullus Online: An Online Repertory of Conjectures on Catullus is a wonderful resource, which I have found complete and accurate in whatever I have checked, but rather depressing viewed at length. Only six of the sixty-eight lines in … Continue reading →

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