These two lines seem to have been in the view of Ariosto, in the 14th canto of the _Orlando_— “E per quanti occhi il ciel le furtive opre Degli amatori, a mezza notte, scopre.” Martial likewise imitates, and refers to this and to the 5th poem of Catullus, in the 34th epigram of the 6th book— “Basia da nobis, Diadumene, pressa: quot? inquis— Oceani fluctus me numerare jubes; Et maris Ægæi sparsas per littora conchas, Et quæ Cecropio monte vagantur apes. Nolo quot arguto dedit exorata Catullo Lesbia: pauca cupit, qui numerare potest.” The verses of Catullus have been also imitated in Latin by Sannazzarius, by Joannes Secundus, of course, in his _Basia_, and by almost all the ancient amatory poets of France. 8. _Ad Seipsum_. This is quite in the Greek taste: About a third of the Odes of Anacreon are addressed Εις σεαυτον. Catullus here playfully, yet feelingly, remonstrates with himself, for still pursuing his inconstant Lesbia, by whom he had been forsaken. 9. _Ad Verannium_. This is one of the most pleasing of the shorter poems. Catullus congratulates his friend Verannius on his return from Spain, and expresses his joy in terms more touching and natural than anything in the 12th Satire of Juvenal, or the 36th Ode of the 1st Book of Horace, which were both written on similar occasions. 10. _De Varri Scorto_. Catullus gives an account of a visit which he paid at the house of a courtezan, along with his friend Varrus, and relates, in a lively manner, the conversation which he had with the lady on the subject of the acquisitions made by him in Bithynia, from which he had lately returned. There seems here a hit to have been intended against Cæsar, of whose conduct in that country some scandalous anecdotes were afloat. The epigram, however, appears chiefly directed against those cross-examiners, who are not to be put off with indefinite answers, and in whose company one must be constantly on guard. In fact, the lady detects Catullus making an unfounded boast of his Bithynian acquisitions, and he accordingly exclaims, “Sed tu insulsa male, et molesta vivis, Per quam non licet esse negligentem.” 11. _Ad Furium et Aurelium_. This ode commences in a higher tone of poetry than any of the preceding. Catullus addresses his friends, Furius and Aurelius, who, he is confident, would be ready to accompany him to the most remote and barbarous quarters of the globe— “Furi et Aureli, comites Catulli, Sive in extremos penetrabit Indos, Littus ut longe resonante Eoà Tunditur undâ.” This verse was no doubt in the view of Horace, in the sixth Ode of the second Book, where he addresses his friend Septimius, and adopts the elegant and melodious Sapphic stanza employed by Catullus— “Septimi, Gades aditure mecum, et Cantabrum indoctum juga ferre nostra, et Barbaras Syrtes, ubi Maura semper Æstuat unda.”