Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Poems of Caius Valerius Catullus: With an English Translation
It is impossible to restore with certainty the orthography of Catullus. The mss. Give little help, though they have preserved some of the earlier forms which were current at the time. I have, I believe, printed few if any orthographical forms which Catullus could not have used: but in doubtful cases I have admitted forms justified by the usage of the Augustan age, an age in which much atten tion was paid to orthography, in preference to those found in inscriptions, the tendency of which is to perpetuate archaic spelling.
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