Catullus 107: a Callimachean reading

Extract: <p>‘Excitement struggles with the restraint of form and language and the artifice of verbal repetition… runs riot.’ The repetition is more pronounced and personal here than in another Lesbia epigram, no. 70, where ‘the repetition dicit…dicit makes it certain that Catullus had [Callima...

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Main Author: D'angour, AJ
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2009