[12] Assyrios: for Syrios; cf. Catul. 68.144; Verg. G. 2.465; Hor. Carm. 2.11.16, etc. The war was to avenge the murder of Berenice, sister of Ptolemy Euergetes and widow of Antiochus Theos, by her step-son Seleucus Callinicus, who had in 246 B.C. succeeded his father on the throne of Syria.
Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:
text:
poem:
poem 1poem 2poem 3poem 4poem 5poem 6poem 7poem 8poem 9poem 10poem 11poem 12poem 13poem 14poem 14bpoem 15poem 16poem 17poem 18-20poem 21poem 22poem 23poem 24poem 25poem 26poem 27poem 28poem 29poem 30poem 31poem 32poem 33poem 34poem 35poem 36poem 37poem 38poem 39poem 40poem 41poem 42poem 43poem 44poem 45poem 46poem 47poem 48poem 49poem 50poem 51poem 52poem 53poem 54poem 55poem 56poem 57poem 58poem 58bpoem 59poem 60poem 61poem 62poem 63poem 64poem 65poem 66poem 67poem 68apoem 68bpoem 69poem 70poem 71poem 72poem 73poem 74poem 75poem 76poem 77poem 78poem 78bpoem 79poem 80poem 81poem 82poem 83poem 84poem 85poem 86poem 87poem 88poem 89poem 90poem 91poem 92poem 93poem 94poem 95poem 96poem 97poem 98poem 99poem 100poem 101poem 102poem 103poem 104poem 105poem 106poem 107poem 108poem 109poem 110poem 111poem 112poem 113poem 114poem 115poem 116
commline:
line 1line 1lines 1-2line 3lines 3-3lines 4-4line 5lines 5-5lines 6-6line 7line 7line 7lines 7-10lines 9-9line 10lines 10-10lines 11-11lines 12-14lines 15-17lines 18-19lines 20-20line 21lines 21-21lines 22-22line 23lines 23-24lines 25-26lines 27-27line 28line 28lines 28-28line 29lines 29-29line 30lines 30-30lines 31-32lines 33-33lines 34-34lines 35-35lines 36-36lines 37-37line 38line 38lines 38-38lines 39-39lines 40-42line 43lines 43-43lines 44-44lines 45-46lines 47-47lines 48-49lines 50-50line 51lines 51-52lines 53-53line 54lines 54-54line 55lines 55-55lines 56-56lines 57-57line 58line 58lines 58-58lines 59-60line 61lines 61-61line 62lines 62-62lines 63-64line 65line 65lines 65-65lines 66-66lines 67-67lines 68-68lines 69-69line 70lines 70-70lines 71-72line 73lines 73-73line 74lines 74-74lines 75-76line 77line 77lines 77-78lines 79-79line 80line 80lines 80-81lines 82-82line 83lines 83-84line 85lines 85-86lines 87-89lines 90-90line 91line 91lines 91-93line 94line 94line 94lines 94ff.
This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
text comm
Catullus. Catullus. E. T. Merrill. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1893.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
show
Browse Bar
hide
Places (automatically extracted)
View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.
Sort places
alphabetically,
as they appear on the page,
by frequency
Click on a place to search for it in this document.
Syria (Syria) (1)Click on a place to search for it in this document.
Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.
hide
Search
hide
Display Preferences