E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Poem 62, line 28

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[28] viri … parentes: i.e. marriage-contracts arranged by husbands on the one side and parents on the other. viri is used by anticipation as in v. 65 genero; cf. also 64.328 “maritis” . With the change of form of the repeated tense for metrical reasons and for variety cf.

“ verum haec ludus ibi susque omnia deque fuerunt,
susque haec deque fuere inquam, omnia, ludu' iocusque

”
Lucil. 3.11 Müll.ff.

;

“ illum etiam lauri, etiam flevere myricae,
pinifer illum etiam sola sub rupe iacentem
Maenalus et gelidi fleverunt saxa Lycaei

”
Verg. Ecl. 10.13

; Lucr. 6.2-5. “dididĕrunt, recreavērunt, rogarunt, dedĕrunt, genuēre.”

Catullus. Catullus. E. T. Merrill. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1893.

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