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| | Latin 323: First Day Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Catullus was born in Verona (in Northern Italy) in 84 BCE, the son of a wealthy provincial family. |
 | | It is rumored that Catullus died in 54 BCE, at the age of 30, having authored a series of occasional poems of vastly different tone, meter, and genre. |
 | | Both G and R derive from a lost copy of V; all other extant manuscripts of Catullus are dependent on O, G, and R. Only one poem survives outside of this line of transmission--62, which is preserved in an 8th century florilegium (collection of poems by various authors made for the owner of the manuscript). |
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