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The Metre Of Catullus' Elegiacs1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

D. A. West
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh

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The purpose of this paper is to protest against the opinion that Catullus' Elegiacs are careless and uncouth. It will be shown that in many details his metre resembles that of the Augustan Elegists, and then it will be argued that some of the points in which Catullus differs from the Augustans are signs not of incompetence or indifference but of a deliberate adjustment of metre to content

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1957

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