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inspired by Sappho; admired by Caesar; prosperious family; rediscovered in Renaissance; loves Clodia (meets in fashionable social and literary circles)
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Catullus
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what did Catullus' elegiac couplet become
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the standard for love elegies
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a figure of speech that uses exaggeration or overstatement for emphasis
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hyperbole
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who is Lesbia
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Clodia
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Catullus' poems were strikingly _____, _____, and _____
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vivid, personal, direct
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who is Clodia
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Catullus' lover; cougar of 10 yrs; faithless and beautiful; wife of Roman politician; brother was trouble-maker
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a paradox of emotions- doesn't know how he feels them but he does
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I hate and I love
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apparent contradictory statements that are actually true
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paradoxes
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Lesbia returns; lucky "white" day in his calendar; claims to being the happiest man alive
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if ever anyone anywhere
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lesbian wants Catullus over Jupiter; women's words are unreliable
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lesbian says she'ld rather marry me
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getting over Lesbia; recalls happy days; hardens heart; Lesbia shouldn't expect him anymore; resolve seems short-lived
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wretched Catullus, leave off playing the fool
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