[33-36] The maidens had complained of Hesperus for robbing them of a companion, and in general for ushering in the night, the time of fear and depredation. The youths denied in the lost verses that Hesperus is the harbinger of danger, and in vv. 33-36 support their denial by two reasons and by an argumentum ad hominem: possible danger at night is averted by ordinary watchfulness; Hesperus himself acts as thief-taker by ushering in the unexpected dawn; and finally, maidens themselves but feign fear of the darkness.
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Catullus. Catullus. E. T. Merrill. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1893.
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