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Browsing named entities in E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill). You can also browse the collection for Tiber (Italy) or search for Tiber (Italy) in all documents.
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Early Lyric Poetry at Rome.
1. The beginnings of lyric poetry among the Romans reach
back to the prehistoric period of the city, and were as
rude and shapeless as was the life of her people. Amid
the rough farmer-populace of the turf-walled village by
the Tiber the
Arval Brethren and the Salii chanted their rude
litanies to the rustic deities, - for even then
religion was a prime cause in moving men toward poetry.
In roughly balanced Saturnian verses men spoke regret
and panegyric for the dead and praises for the valorous
deeds of the living. The mimetic passion and rude wit
of the Roman led him also into boisterous personal
satire and into epigram more pungent than polished. But
until the last few decades of the Republic these
products of the Muse are either anonymous or connected
with names well-nigh forgotten, and the
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 55 (search)