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Vim subitam tolerare: ita magno turbidus imbri

Molibus incurrit validis cum viribus amnis.

quoted,--and again, in these lines--

Denique nota vagi silvestria templa tenebant

Nympharum, quibus e scibant umori' fluenta

Lubrica proluvie larga lavere umida saxa,

Umida saxa, super viridi stillantia musco,

Et partim plano scatere atque erumpere campo.

In this representation of the sea-shore--

Concharumque genus parili ratione videmus

Pingere telluris gremium, qua mollibus undis

Litoris incurvi bibulam pavit aequor harenam,--

λαΐγγας πότι χέρσον ἀποπλύνεσπε θάλασσα.

Primum aurora novo cum spargit lumine terras

Et variae volucres nemora avia pervolitantes

Aera per tenerum liquidis loca vocibus opplent,

Quam subito soleat sol ortus tempore tali

Convestire sua perfundens omnia luce,

Omnibus in promptu manifestumque esse videmus.

Aurea cum primum gemmantis rore per herbas

Matutina rubent radiati lumina solis

Exhalantque lacus nebulam fluviique perennes,

Ipsaque ut interdum tellus fumare videtur;

Omnia quae sursum cum conciliantur, in alto

Corpore concreto subtexunt nubila caelum.

'Upon the dark materials of the storm.'

scenery. The lines at ii. 352-366, describing the cow searching

Noscit humi pedibus vestigia pressa bisulcis;--

Nec tenerae salices atque herbae rore vigentes

Fluminaque illa queunt summis labentia ripis;--

Nam saepe in colli tondentes pabula laeta,' etc.;

Praeterea magnae legiones cum loca cursu

Camporum complent belli simulacra cientes,

Fulgor ibi ad caelum se tollit totaque circum

Aere renidescit tellus supterque virum vi

Excitur pedibus sonitus clamoreque montes

Icti reiectant voces ad sidera mundi

Et circumvolitant equites mediosque repente

Tramittunt valido quatientes impete campos.

The truth and fulness of life in this passage are immediately

Et tamen est quidam locus altis montibus unde

Stare videntur et in campis consistere fulgor.

Summa etiam cum vis violenti per mare venti

Induperatorem classis super aequora verrit

Cum validis pariter legionibus atque elephantis,

Non divom pacem votis adit ac prece quaesit

Ventorum pavidus paces animasque secundas, etc.

Tum porro puer, ut saevis proiectus ab undis

Navita, nudus humi iacet, infans, indigus omni

Vitali auxilio, cum primum in luminis oras

Nixibus ex alvo matris natura profudit,

Vagituque locum lugubri complet, ut aecumst

Cui tantum in vita restet transire malorum.

Iamque caput quassans grandis suspirat arator

Crebrius incassum manuum cecidisse labores,

Et cum tempora temporibus praesentia confert

Praeteritis, laudat fortunas saepe parentis

Et crepat, anticum genus ut pietate repletum

Perfacile angustis tolerarit finibus aevom,

Cum minor esset agri multo modus ante viritim.

mixtos vagitibus aegris

Ploratus mortis comites et funeris atri.

imagination.

His imagination, which depicts so forcibly the intimations of

extra flammantia moenia mundi--

His excellencies are so different from those of Virgil that the

'Quaerentem dictis quibus et quo carmine demum

Clara tuae possim praepandere lumina menti

Res quibus occultas penitus convisere possis.'

tossing flag-posts of ships, to warn mortals that they shun the

'The appearance, instantaneously disclosed,' etc.

hedera iuvenalia vinctus

Quae dulcem curis miscet amaritiem.

The ultimate preservation of his poems depended on a single copy,

Namque tu solebas

Meas esse aliquid putare nugas, etc.--

This collection consists of about 116 poems, written in various

to Diana,' receive a rude shock from the two intervening poems,

In longum tamen aevum

Manserunt hodieque manent vestigia ruris.

There is some uncertainty as to the exact date of his birth and

Vatinius. A line in the poem, immediately preceding that

containing the allusion to the speech of Calvus,--

Per consulatum perierat Vatinius,--

was, till the appearance of Schwabe's 'Quaestiones Catullianae,'

Quid est Catulle? quid moraris emori?

in supposing that she was ten than that she was seven years older

Veronae, mater amata meae;

he speaks of one of his fellow-townsmen, as--

Quendam municipem meum.

Salve, o venusta Sirmio, atque ero gaude;

Gaudete vosque o vividae lacus undae--

shows that he derived keen enjoyment from the familiar loveliness

impression made unconsciously on his imagination by the mountain

scenery of Northern Italy.

His native district afforded scope for the culture, which was the

Sapphica puella

Musa doctior,--

both with the 'Muse of Sappho,' and with the more laboured art of

Tempore quo primum vestis mihi tradita pura'st,