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Definition of Gaius Valerius Catullus
1. Noun. Roman lyric poet remembered for his love poems to an aristocratic Roman woman (84-54 BC).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaius Valerius Catullus
Literary usage of Gaius Valerius Catullus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1905)
"The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus, with an English Translation by FRANCIS
WARRE CORNISH, MA, late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"... these external evidences are the statements of Jerome, in the continuation of
the Eusebian Chronicle, under the year 87 Bc : " Gaius Valerius Catullus, ..."
3. A Junior Latin Book: With Notes, Exercises, and Vocabulary by John Carew Rolfe, Walter Dennison (1898)
"(9) Gaius Valerius Catullus, the celebrated Roman poet, born in Verona in 87 BC ;
died in 54. valetudo, -inis, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Gaius Valerius Catullus. 87 or 84 — c. 54 BC First important and perhaps the
greatest Latin lyric poet. We have a collection of over a hundred of his poems. ..."
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