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Catullus

Catullus · m

a celebrated Roman writer of elegies and epigrams

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Where it lives

Carmina 25 · 19.43/10k
Epigrammata 25 · 4.44/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
Saturae 6 · 2.41/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
Apologia 3 · 1.4/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Letters 6 · 0.93/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k

Densest 12 of 22 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Cătullus — Lewis & Short

Cătullus, i, m.

I Q. Valerius, acc. to Plin. 37, 6, 21, § 81; C. acc. to App. Mag. 10, p. 12 Bip., a celebrated Roman writer of elegies and epigrams, born near or in Verona, 86 B. C.; Nep. Att. 12, 4; Hor. S. 1, 10, 19; Tib. 3, 6 41; Ov. Am. 3, 9, 62; Mart. 7, 99; cf. Bernhardy, Röm. Litt. p. 466 sq.; Bähr, Lit. Gesch. p. 184 sq.—Hence,

B Cătullĭānus, a, um, of Catullus: basia, Mart. 11, 6, 14.—

II Catullus Urbicarius, a mimographer of the time of Domitian, Juv. 8, 186; 12, 29; 12, 37; 13, 111.—

III Catullus Messalinus, an informer of the same time, Juv. 4, 113; Plin. Ep. 4, 22, 5.

In the wild

Catullum Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 6.20.6
Catullum Catullus, Carmina lyrics.14.13
Catullo Ovid, Tristia 2.1.427
Catullum Catullus, Carmina elegies.82.1
Catulle Martial, Epigrammata 12.73.1
Catullus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 7.16.8

6 of 100 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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