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Catullus more or less disappeared from sight between Isidore of Seville who in the seventh century quoted two passages (attributing one to Calvus) and somewhere around 1300 when Hieremias de Montagnone Padua seven his Compendium Moralium Notabilium, followed 1329 by a citation 22nd poem an anonymous Liber Florum Auctoritatum Verona. reemerges fourteenth implausibly, like Ovid Martial, as purveyor moral saws. Two shafts light break darkness. One is ninth-century MS (Paris Lat. 8071), Codex Thuaneus (T), once owned Jacques Thou (1553-1617), containing 62nd poem, Epithalamium Catulli, anthology Latin poetry. Centuries older than rest tradition, lacuna after 62.32 other mistakes it close rest. Still, independent important. 62.7 simple example. Modern editors read Oetaeos. T has oeta eos, hoc eos.
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