[40] convulsus: the feelings of the maidens lead them to use a word implying more than ordinary violence (cf. Catul. 64.40), while in Catul. 11.24, for a different reason, the lightest possible word is used of the action of the plough upon a tender plant.
Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:
text:
poem:
poem 1poem 2poem 3poem 4poem 5poem 6poem 7poem 8poem 9poem 10poem 11poem 12poem 13poem 14poem 14bpoem 15poem 16poem 17poem 18-20poem 21poem 22poem 23poem 24poem 25poem 26poem 27poem 28poem 29poem 30poem 31poem 32poem 33poem 34poem 35poem 36poem 37poem 38poem 39poem 40poem 41poem 42poem 43poem 44poem 45poem 46poem 47poem 48poem 49poem 50poem 51poem 52poem 53poem 54poem 55poem 56poem 57poem 58poem 58bpoem 59poem 60poem 61poem 62poem 63poem 64poem 65poem 66poem 67poem 68apoem 68bpoem 69poem 70poem 71poem 72poem 73poem 74poem 75poem 76poem 77poem 78poem 78bpoem 79poem 80poem 81poem 82poem 83poem 84poem 85poem 86poem 87poem 88poem 89poem 90poem 91poem 92poem 93poem 94poem 95poem 96poem 97poem 98poem 99poem 100poem 101poem 102poem 103poem 104poem 105poem 106poem 107poem 108poem 109poem 110poem 111poem 112poem 113poem 114poem 115poem 116
commline:
line 1line 1lines 1-2line 3line 3lines 3-3line 4lines 4-4lines 5-5line 6lines 6-6line 7line 7line 7lines 7-7line 8line 8lines 8-8line 9line 9lines 9-10line 11lines 11-11lines 12-12lines 13-13line 14lines 14-14line 15line 15lines 15-16line 17lines 17-19line 20line 20lines 20-20line 21line 21lines 21-21lines 22-22lines 23-23lines 24-26line 27lines 27-27lines 28-28lines 29-29lines 30-31lines 32-32lines 33-36lines 33-33line 34line 34lines 34-34line 35lines 35-35lines 36-36lines 37-38lines 39-39lines 40-40lines 41-41lines 42-42line 43lines 43-44line 45line 45lines 45-45line 46lines 46-46lines 47-48line 49lines 49-49lines 50-50lines 51-51line 52line 52lines 52-52lines 53-53line 54lines 54-55lines 56-56lines 57-57lines 58-58lines 59-62lines 63-63lines 64-64lines 65ff.
This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
text comm
Catullus. Catullus. E. T. Merrill. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1893.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
show
Browse Bar
hide
Places (automatically extracted)
View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.
Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.
hide
Search
hide
Display Preferences