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[22] velut: love then languished only, but is now dead and cannot be recalled to life; with the figure, cf. Verg. A. 9.433purpureus veluti cum flos succisus aratro languescit moriens” , though Catullus secures greater delicacy of expression by introducing ultimi prati, and by using tactus instead of succisus.


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