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By simulating a
lover`s lrenzy, then, in exalting his oarling`s qualities, Catulus` epigram
exhibits a raoical change in cultural mooo lrom bombastic political
eulogy to erotic ,ano ironic, re"nement.
In contemporary Greek literature ,incluoing Meleager,, this perioo
witnesses a kino ol revival ol early Hellenistic epigram ,Callima-
chus, Fosioippus, Asclepiaoes,.
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Catulus 1 Morel ,~ 1 Courtney,, lor
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My soul has lelt me, it has !eo, I think, to Theotimus, he is its reluge.
But what il I shoulo beg that he reluse to aomit the truant, but cast it
out? I`ll go to him, but what il I am caught? What shall I oo? Leno me,
Venus, your aio. ,trans. alter Rolle,
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Iantuzzi ano Hunter ,200!: !o3,.
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On Catulus 2 Morel, see also Granarolo ,1971: !90,, Dahlmann ,1981,, Ferutelli
,1990,, Weber ,199o,.
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5'/3$. Laurens ,1989: 17!,, who compares some ol Meleager`s poems such as
100 GF ,~ !F 12.9,.