Meleager and Catullus at Vergil Eclogue 1.55.
Meleager's pair of epigrams on a grasshopper and cicada (AP 7.195 = HE 12 and AP 7.196 = HE 13) were popular with Roman poets of the late Republic. Allusions to the companion epigrams feature in two of the most programmatically significant poems of the period, Catullus 2 and Vergil Eclogue 1. In thi...
| Publicado en: | Classical Philology Vol. 118; no. 4; pp. 527 - 536 |
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