This man described another writer's volume as "wrapping for mackerel" in a poem celebrating the publishing of his friend's work Smyrna. The speaker of one of his poems remarks that "Leisure has destroyed kings and blessed cities" and describes his jealousy of a man who "seems to me to be equal to a god." In one poem, this man compared a figure who "does not use his left hand too well" while stealing napkins to his close friends (*) Fabullus and Veranius. A vulgar poem by this man addresses two men with the question "Do you think me less of a man?" before promising to "sodomize and face-fuck" them. This man described his brother's death in a poem ending with the excla
This man described another writer's volume as "wrapping for mackerel" in a poem celebrating the publishing of his friend's work Smyrna. The speaker of one of his poems remarks that "Leisure has destroyed kings and blessed cities" and describes his jealousy of a man who "seems to me to be equal to a god." In one poem, this man compared a figure who "does not use his left hand too well" while stealing napkins to his close friends (*) Fabullus and Veranius. A vulgar poem by this man addresses two men with the question "Do you think me less of a man?" before promising to "sodomize and face-fuck" them. This man described his brother's death in a poem ending with the exclamation "Hail and farewell!" For 10 points, name this Roman elegiac poet and lover of Lesbia.
This man described another writer's volume as "wrapping for mackerel" in a poem celebrating the publishing of his friend's work Smyrna.
Gaius Valerius Catullus