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- Catullus 50 - Catullus 50 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus. It explicitly describes the exchange of poetry between Catullus and his friend Calvus, but Catullus's use of diction and rhetorical device suggest sexual undertones.
- Catullus 65 - Catullus 65 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus. Despite the his depression following the death of his brother (see Catullus 101), the poet sends his friend Hortalus this poem and a translation of Callimachus (see Catullus 66).
- Catullus 30 - Catullus 30 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus, dealing with the untrustworthiness of boyfriends. For a comparison with the female countparts, see Catullus 70 and Catullus 76.
- Catullus 11 - Catullus 11 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus. Generally believed to be the last of the Lesbia poems, this poem adopts the unusual Sapphic meter; this poem and Catullus 51 are the only (surviving) poems of Catullus written in this meter.
- Catullus 1 - Catullus 1 is traditionally arranged first among the poems of the Roman poet Catullus, though it was not necessarily the first poem that he wrote. It is dedicated to Cornelius Nepos, a historian and minor poet, though some consider Catullus' praise of Cornelius' history of the Italians to have been sarcastic.