The adventures of Catullus and history of his amours with Lesbia [T130888]

DMI number:

366

Publication Date:

1707

Volume Number:

1 of 1

ESTC number:

T130888

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW111899766

Shelfmark:

British Library 12510.bbb.25.

Full Title:

THE | ADVENTURES | OF | [i]CATULLUS[/i], | AND | HISTORY | OF HIS | Amours with [i]LESBIA[/i]. | Intermixt with Translations of his | Choicest Poems. | [rule] | By several Hands. | [rule] | [i]Done from the[/i] French. | [rule] | [i]LONDON[/i]: | Printed for [i]J. Chantry[/i] at the Sign of [i]Lincolns- | Inn-Square[/i], at [i]Lincolns-Inn-Back-Gate[/i], 1707.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of translations/imitations

Format:

Duodecimo

Pagination:

[24],71,70-406p.

Bibliographic details:

Pp. 70-71 repeated in pagination; mispagination ('105' for 305, ‘42’ for 402, ‘43’ for 403); text and register continuous.

Comments:

PLATES: Facing title page, engraved by Vandergucht. CONTENTS: Mostly prose narrative, poems interspersed.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Frontispiece; title-page; dedicatory epistle (sig.A2-A4v); ‘Author’s Preface’ (sig.A5-A10v); table of contents (sig.A11-A12v). Back matter: Advertisement ('Books Printed for, and Sold by John Chantry), pp.401-406.

Related People

Dedicatee:

O'Brien||Henry||8th Earl of Thomond

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Engraver:

Gerard Vandergucht

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Frontispiece signed: 'M. V.er Gucht Sculp.'

Publisher:

John Chantry

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

'Printed for J. Chantry at the Sign of Lincolns-Inn-Square, at Lincolns-Inn-Back-Gate.'

Content/Publication

First Line:

Wretched Catullus fool thy self no more

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p.6

Poem Title:

To himself [see contents table]

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Diana is our patroness

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pp.16-17

Poem Title:

To Diana [see contents table]

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That happy mortal seems to me

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p.20

Poem Title:

To Lesbia [see contents table]

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First Line:

Prettiest of birds my Lesbia's favourite

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pp.23-24

Poem Title:

To Lesbia’s Sparrow [see contents table]

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Quintilia's in the town's opinion fine

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p.27

Poem Title:

To Quintilla and Lesbia [see contents table]

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First Line:

Whilst on Septimius panting breast

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pp.30-31

Poem Title:

On Acme and Septimus [see contents table]

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First Line:

Joy to thee girl with half a nose

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p.32

Poem Title:

To Formianus’s Mistress [see contents table]

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First Line:

Come all ye Venus's ye Cupids all

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pp.37-38

Poem Title:

On the Death of Lesbia’s Sparrow [see contents table]

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First Line:

Let's live my dearest Lesbia and love

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pp.38-39

Poem Title:

To Lesbia [see contents table]

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First Line:

Lesbia dost ask how many kisses

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p.39

Poem Title:

To Lesbia [see contents table]

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First Line:

My Lesbia swears she would Catullus wed

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p.40

Poem Title:

On the Inconstancy of Womens Love [see contents table]

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First Line:

However ardent is your amorous grief

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p.43

Poem Title:

[no title]

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Shut your heart and shut your eyes

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p.44.2

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[no title]

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We then increase the beauteous object's fame

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p.44

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A rival in a friend to see

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p.45

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[no title]

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First Line:

Licinius yesterday at leisure

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pp.45-46

Poem Title:

To Licinius [see contents table]

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First Line:

Once Lesbia did you say and vouch it true

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p.56-57

Poem Title:

To Lesbia [see contents table]

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First Line:

I hate and love perhaps you'll ask me why

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p.57

Poem Title:

On his Love [see contents table]

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First Line:

Gellius I did not therefore hope you'd prove

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pp.62-63

Poem Title:

On Gellius [see contents table]

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Gellius is lean and why not such a son

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p.63

Poem Title:

More against Gellius. / On Gellius [see contents table]

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First Line:

Gellius is fair and beauteous to the view

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p.69

Poem Title:

On Lesbia [see contents table]

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First Line:

My Ipsitilla charming fair

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pp.70-71

Poem Title:

To Hypthistilla [see contents table]

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First Line:

That Lesbia Caelius that dear faithless she

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p.70

Poem Title:

To Caelius of Lesbia [see contents table]

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First Line:

Calvus if tears which we profusely shed

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p.81

Poem Title:

To Calvus on Quintilia.

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First Line:

Furius and Aurelius who

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p.84

Poem Title:

To Furius on Aurelius [see contents table]

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First Line:

Furius whose dwelling's not possessed

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pp.89-90

Poem Title:

To Furius [see contents table]

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First Line:

Varrus that wretch Suffenus whom you know

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p.96

Poem Title:

To Varrus [see contents table]

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My faithful lover I have slain

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p.105

Poem Title:

[no title]

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Joys and pleasures mirth and gladness

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p.106

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Love's of the Gods and men the life and breath

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pp.109-110

Poem Title:

The Merchant of Plantus [see contents table]

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First Line:

Smyrna my Cinna's little book has taken

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pp.113-114

Poem Title:

On Cinna’s Poem, call’d Smyrna [see contents table]

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First Line:

Oh Davus am I so despised a fool

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p.120

Poem Title:

The Andrea of Terence [see contents table]

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First Line:

Juventius might I kiss those eyes

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p.123

Poem Title:

To Juventius [see contents table]

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First Line:

What fiend or wizard owed thee shame

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p.124

Poem Title:

To Ravidus [see contents table]

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First Line:

Atys embarked on shipboard hoisted sail

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pp.128-131

Poem Title:

On Atys [see contents table]

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First Line:

Lovely Juventius while you toyed I stole

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pp.135-136

Poem Title:

To Juventius [see contents table]

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First Line:

In vain you with a doubtful heart

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pp.145-146

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First Line:

Iris would you the cause be told

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pp.149-150

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[no title]

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First Line:

Strive not Leuconoe to know what end

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p.153

Poem Title:

To Leuconoe Horace, Ode 11 [see contents table]

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First Line:

The spring's now in its infancy the spring

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pp.182-187

Poem Title:

The Eve of Venus [see contents table]

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First Line:

But yet oh nymphs of Cupid have a care

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p.192

Poem Title:

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First Line:

Let him to morrow love that never has loved

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p.192

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[no title]

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First Line:

Venus will all this jubilee enjoy

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p.192

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Aurelius I entreat your care

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pp.195-196

Poem Title:

To Aurelius [see contents table]

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First Line:

Conon the nice observer of the skies

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p.214-217

Poem Title:

On Berenice’s Hair [see contents table]

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Strangers this tomb's inscription makes appear

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p.221

Poem Title:

Callimachus’s Epit. [see contents table]

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First Line:

Does Charidas entombed beneath thee sleep

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p.261

Poem Title:

Callimachus’s Ep. 22d. [see contents table]

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First Line:

To whom should I but to Cornelius make

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pp.268-269

Poem Title:

To Cornelius Nepos [see contents table]

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Aurelius you the chief and head

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pp.273-274

Poem Title:

To Aurelius [see contents table]

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First Line:

Caesar so little I regard thy sight

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p.282

Poem Title:

Against Caesar [see contents table]

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First Line:

No two male harlots ever agreed

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p.284

Poem Title:

Against Mamurra and Caesar [see contents table]

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Through many lands and many seas I'm come

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p.287

Poem Title:

On his Brother’s Death [see contents table]

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First Line:

Sirmio thou light and ornament of all

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p.289

Poem Title:

To the Island Sirmio [see contents table]

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That vessel which you strangers see

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pp.290-291

Poem Title:

On a Ship that brought him home to his Country [see contents table]

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First Line:

Lesbia rails at me in her husband's sight

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pp.307-308

Poem Title:

On Lesbia’s Husband [see contents table, where p.306 is incorrectly given]

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First Line:

Each moment of the live long day

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p.308

Poem Title:

On Lesbia [see contents table]

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First Line:

Whatever Bythynia ever had entire

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p.332

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Asterius was a pretty sort of prince

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pp.337-342

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

Furius you to me often cry

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p.348

Poem Title:

To Furius [see contents table]

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First Line:

If the remembrance of good deeds can please

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pp.372-373

Poem Title:

To himself [see contents table]

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First Line:

My Lesbia to that pass my mind is brought

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p.373

Poem Title:

On Lesbia [see contents table]

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First Line:

Believest thou I could curse the dame I prize

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p.381

Poem Title:

To a Friend on Lesbia [see contents table]

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First Line:

Who can bear this or on it tamely look

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pp.392-393

Poem Title:

Against Caesar [see contents table]

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First Line:

If any blessing long desired and grown

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p.399

Poem Title:

To Lesbia [see contents table]

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First Line:

My life you make proposals that our love

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p.400

Poem Title:

To Lesbia [see contents table]

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