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E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Friends and foes. (search)
sion to the verses of Hortensius in c. 95.3 (cf. however § 25 ad fin.). 66. The Varus of c. 10 is apparently identical with the Varus of c. 22, who is a friend of Catullus and a critic of poetry, if not a poet himself. This may well be the distinguished Quintilius Varus, the Augustan critic (Hor. AP. 438 ff.) and poet (Acro and Comm. Cruq. on l.c.). He is called a native of Cremona; and his death in 23 B.C. (according to Jerome) drew from Horace a touching address of sympathy to Vergil (Carm. 1.24). Judged from the tone of the passage in the Ars Poetica , Quintilius must have been somewhat older than Horace, while yet he could hardly have been born long, if at all, before Catullus. The attempt to identify the Varus of c. 10 and c. 2 with Alfenus Varus of c. 30 is unsat
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 22 (search)
On Suffenus, a conceited and voluminous poetaster, though a good fellow in other relations.—Meter, choliambic. Suffenus. mentioned as a bad poet in Catul. 14.19, but otherwise unknown. Vare: probably Quintilius Varus of Cremona, mentioned also in Catul. 10.1; cf. Intr. 66. probe nosti: apparently a colloquialism; cf. Ter. Heaut. 180 hunc Menedemuni nostin? Probe; Cic. De Or. 3.50.194 Antipater, quem tu probe meministi. venustus, dicax, urbanus: see Quintilian's definition of these three qualities in Quint. 6.3.17, Quint. 6.3.18,Quint. 6.3.21; and cf. Sen. Const. Sap. 17.3 idem: at the same time, notwithstanding this; to point an unexpected contrast; cf. Catul. 22.15; Catul. 25.4; Catul
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 67 (search)
conscelerasse domum: cf. Catul. 64.404 divos scelerare parentes , also of unnatural crime. iners sterili semine: on the repetition of idea in the adjectives cf. Catul. 64.64, Catul. 64.103, Catul. 64.221; Catul. 90.5; and (with Ellis) v. 48. zonam: etc. cf. Catul. 2.13n. Brixia: the modern Brescia, the capital of the (Gallic) Cenomani (Liv. 32.30). It is about as far to the westward of Sirmio as Verona is to the eastward (one half-hour by rail). —The remainder of the verse is involved in great difficulty; it might naturally be taken to refer to the situation of Brixia at the base of a hill, but suppositum is apparently not used elsewhere in the sense of ‘lying at the foot of,’ and no hill in the neighborhood of Brixia is called by a <