A translation of that poem, "Berenice's Lock," comprises Catullus 66.
One work by this poet grumpily declares, "I hate the bard who strolls along / And sells in streets his borrowed song," while another describes how "thrice the thrifty earth has drank the wine" of a host with a "secret wound deep- rankling in his breast." A poem originally by this author is about a woman who "with curious and enlarged eye / surveyed the splendid glories of the sky" and uses a braid of hair to narrate the wedding night of a new queen. A translation of that poem, "Berenice's Lock," comprises Catullus 66. This poet used the phrase "mega biblion, mega kakon," or "big book, big evil," in a debate about the proper length of poems with his student Apollonius of Rhodes. The opening line of Ezra Pound's "Homage to Sextus Propertius" refers to the "shades" of this poet, who wrote the Pinakes, an extensive record of the holdings of the Library of Alexandria. For 10 points, name this Cyrenaic poet who wrote about the "causes" of things in his Aetia.
One work by this poet grumpily declares, "I hate the bard who strolls along /
Callimachus