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[13] tremula: of the tremulousness of age, as in Catul. 61.51; Catul. 61.161; Catul. 64.307; Catul. 68.142. Precision is not attempted, or an aged man would not be represented as the father of so young a child; but, as in Catul. 61.51; Catul. 64.350; Catul. 68.142, the poet emphasizes the traditional contrast between age and youth by the juxtaposition of the two extreme adjectives bimuli and tremuli.


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