Gaius Valerius Catullus, known as Catullus (c. 84 to c. 54 BC), was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic. His surviving poems remain widely read today, both for their long use as teaching texts and for their frank personal and sexual themes.
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known as Catullus, was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic
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was a Latin neoteric poet
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c. 84, c. 54 BC
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Martial professes to be of the school of Catullus, Pedo and Marsus.
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