Home Catullus 6.17
Article
Licensed
Unlicensed Requires Authentication

Catullus 6.17

  • Tristan Power EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: October 6, 2020
Become an author with De Gruyter Brill

Abstract

This article defends Baehrens’ reading cenam for caelum at Catullus 6.17 as more sensible than scholars have thought, based on allusions to Meleager, AP 5.175. It then proposes a new emendation to the line that is suggested by this Greek source.

Bibliography

Catulli Veronensis Liber, vol. II, ed. E. Baehrens, Leipzig 1885.Search in Google Scholar

Catullus, ed. D. F. S. Thomson, Toronto 1997.Search in Google Scholar

Catullus, ed. E. T. Merrill, Boston 1893.Search in Google Scholar

C. Valerii Catulli Carmina, ed. R. A. B. Mynors, Oxford 1958.Search in Google Scholar

The Greek Anthology, vols. I-V, ed. W. R. Paton, London 1916–1918.Search in Google Scholar

C. Suetoni Tranquilli praeter Caesarum libros reliquiae, ed. A. Reifferscheid, Leipzig 1860.Search in Google Scholar

B. Arkins, An Interpretation of the Poems of Catullus, Lewiston, NY 1999.Search in Google Scholar

F. Cairns, “The Power of Implication: Horace’s Invitation to Maecenas (Odes 1.20)”, in: T. Woodman/J. C. F. Powell (eds.), Author and Audience in Latin Literature, Cambridge 1992, 94–109 = Cairns (2012) 213–243.10.1017/CBO9780511659188.007Search in Google Scholar

F. Cairns, Roman Lyric: Collected Papers on Catullus and Horace, Berlin 2012.10.1515/9783110267228Search in Google Scholar

F. Cairns, Hellenistic Epigram: Contexts of Exploration, Cambridge 2016.10.1017/CBO9781316717479Search in Google Scholar

M. Carilli, “Le nugae di Catullo e l’epigramma greco”, ASNP 5, 1975, 925–953.Search in Google Scholar

C. Deroux, “Le c. VI de Catulle ou: quand un poète promet la berne à un ami”, Latomus 76, 2017, 496–501.Search in Google Scholar

R. Ellis, A Commentary on Catullus, Oxford 21889.Search in Google Scholar

T. Gärtner, “Kritisch-exegetische Überlegungen zu Catullgedichten”, AAntHung 47, 2007, 1–41.10.1556/AAnt.47.2007.1.1Search in Google Scholar

A. S. Gratwick, “Isto uillius (Suetonius fr. 112, Terence Ad. 981)”, AJPh 121, 2000, 79–92.10.1353/ajp.2000.0007Search in Google Scholar

R. D. Griffith, “Cenabis bene (Catullus 13): Host for Real, or Just Blowing Smoke?”, Mouseion 16, 2019, 161–168.10.3138/mous.16.1-08Search in Google Scholar

J. R. Heath, “Catullus 11: Along for the Ride”, in: C. Deroux (ed.), Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, vol. V, Brussels 1989, 98–116.Search in Google Scholar

S. J. Heyworth, Rev. Trappes-Lomax (2007), BMCRev 2008.09.32.Search in Google Scholar

B. A. Krostenko, “Catullus and Elite Republican Social Discourse”, in: M. B. Skinner (ed.), A Companion to Catullus, Malden, MA 2007, 212–232.10.1002/9780470751565.ch12Search in Google Scholar

L. Landolfi, “Silentium amoris. A proposito di Asclep., AP, 12; Call., AP, 12, 134; Catull. 6 e 55”, Orpheus. Rivista di umanità classica e cristiana 7, 1984, 167–181.Search in Google Scholar

L. K. McClure, Courtesans at Table: Gender and Greek Literary Culture in Athenaeus, New York 2003.Search in Google Scholar

D. S. McKie, Essays in the Interpretation of Roman Poetry, Cambridge 2009.Search in Google Scholar

A. M. Morelli, “Catullo, carme 6: una lettura (con saggio di commento)”, Annali di studi umanistici 4, 2016, 47–72.Search in Google Scholar

M. G. Morgan, “Nescio quid febriculosi scorti: A Note on Catullus 6”, CQ 27, 1977, 338–341.10.1017/S0009838800035643Search in Google Scholar

C. Nappa, “Camerius: Catullus CC. 55 and 58b”, Mnemosyne 71, 2018, 336–345.10.1163/1568525X-12342376Search in Google Scholar

C. L. Neudling, A Prosopography to Catullus, Oxford 1955.Search in Google Scholar

R. G. M. Nisbet, “Notes on the Text of Catullus”, PCPhS 24, 1978, 92–115 = Nisbet (1995) 76–100.10.1017/S0068673500004053Search in Google Scholar

R. G. M. Nisbet, Collected Papers, Oxford 1995.Search in Google Scholar

S. P. Oakley, A Commentary on Livy Books VI-X, vols. I-IV, Oxford 1997–2005.Search in Google Scholar

J. K. Schafer, Catullus Through his Books. Dramas of Composition, Cambridge 2020.10.1017/9781108559584Search in Google Scholar

H. P. Syndikus, Catull: eine Interpretation, vol. I, Darmstadt 1984.Search in Google Scholar

J. M. Trappes-Lomax, Catullus: A Textual Reappraisal, Swansea 2007.10.2307/j.ctvvnbr2Search in Google Scholar

W. S. Watt, “Notes on Catullus”, ZPE 131, 2000, 65–68.Search in Google Scholar

J. Wills, Repetition in Latin Poetry: Figures of Allusion, Oxford 1996.10.1093/oso/9780198140849.001.0001Search in Google Scholar

Published Online: 2020-10-06
Published in Print: 2020-11-04

© 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

Downloaded on 6.9.2025 from https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/phil-2020-0112/html?lang=en
Scroll to top button