Catullus 9 is a poem by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (– BCE), written in Phalaecean hendecesyllabic metre.Merrill, ed. 1893, p. 19.
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E. T. Merrill calls the poem "an expression of joy" over the return of Veranius, the poet's friend, from Spain.Merrill, ed. 1893, p. 19. Such expeditions to the colonies on the part of young Romans of that day were common: compare Fabullus in Catullus 28.Merrill, ed. 1893, pp. xxv, xliii.
In his Victorian translation of Catullus, R. F. Burton titles the poem "To Veranius returned from Travel".Burton; Smithers, eds. 1894, p. 15.
References
Sources Burton, Richard F.; Smithers, Leonard C., eds. (1894). The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. London: Printed for the Translators: for Private Subscribers. pp. 15–16. Merrill, Elmer Truesdell, ed. (1893). Catullus (College Series of Latin Authors). Boston, MA: Ginn and Company. pp. xxv, xliii, 19–20.
External links C. Valerius Catullus. "Catul. 9". Carmina. Leonard C. Smithers, ed. Perseus Digital Library. Retrieved 3 March 2023.