E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Poems., para 52

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52. Catullus undoubtedly wrote other poems than those included in the extant liber; but of the fragments attributed to him by the grammarians some are proved to have been falsely so ascribed, and the few remaining are, even if genuine, so slight as to be insignificant (cf. Commentary on cc. 18-21).

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

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