Catullus and his world.-
Page 124- "Catullus was a poet, and wrote to be read." "It was taken for granted among the literary scholars of Catullus's day that the first stage in the art of criticism was reading the passage aloud."

126- the fact that so many of Catullus' short poems have a named addressee suggests that they were sent, like informal correspondence.


Reading Catullus-
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Now when it’s light enough I’ll run / to the copyists bookstalls, I’ll acquire / Caesius, Aquinus, Suffenus, / all of the poisonous ones. / And I’ll repay you for this suffering. / Meanwhile farewell take yourself off, there, / whence your unlucky feet brought you, / cursed ones of the age, worst of poets.