person
Gaius Valerius Catullus
Catullus
also: Catullum
The great neoteric lyric poet (c. 84–54 BC); named, with Calvus, as the whole reading of a shallow modish singer.
Reading notes
- The Satires §1.10 and Catullus
The great neoteric lyricist (c. 84–54 BC); Horace's jibe is at the poetaster who knows nothing but the fashionable 'new poets.'