This poet wrote about the self-mutilation of the frenzied Attis, a priest of Cybele, in a poem written in the rare galliambic meter. This poet claimed that the words of a woman should be written on the wind and running water in one poem, and he began one of his elegiac couplets with the phrase "I ha
This poet wrote about the self-mutilation of the frenzied Attis, a priest of Cybele, in a poem written in the rare galliambic meter. This poet claimed that the words of a woman should be written on the wind and running water in one poem, and he began one of his elegiac couplets with the phrase "I hate and I love." His works were preserved in the manuscript Codex Romanus and are collected in the Carminia. In another poem he references a night of never ending sleep before asking for a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then another thousand. He vulgarly assaulted his critics in his censored "Carmen 16" and coined the phrase ave atque vale in a poem written after the death of his brother. For 10 points, name this elegiac Roman poet of many poems to Lesbia.
This poet wrote about the self-mutilation of the frenzied Attis, a priest of Cybele, in a poem written in the rare galliambic meter.
{Catullus}