Inspirations
Catullus deeply admired Sappho and Callimachus. Catullus Poem 66 is a translation of the poem Βερενίκης Πλόκαμος ("Berenice's Braid") of Callimachus, while Catullus 51 is an adaptation and re-imagining of Sappho 31. Poems 51 and 11 are the only poems of Catullus written in the meter of Sapphic strophe, and may be respectively his first and last poems to Lesbia. He was also inspired by the corruption of Julius Caesar, Pompey, and the other aristocrats of his time.
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