c. 68 to Allius, also Alexandrian; c. 64, the 'Nuptials of Peleus and Thetis,' l. 30 of which, 'Oceanusque, mari totum qui amplectitur orbem,' is from Euphorion, fr. 158 (Meineke), Ὠκεανὸς, τῷ πᾶσα περίρρυτος ἐνδέδεται χθών; c. 63, the 'Attis' in Galliambic metre; c. 62, a translation of a Sapphic epithalamium. C. 51, and possibly some parts of c. 61, are from Sappho. Catullus was the first Roman to use the Sapphic measure (in cc. 11 and 51). _Publication of the Poems._--From the arrangement of the poems, which accords neither with chronology nor with subjects, and from the large number of lines extant (2286), which does not suit _libellus_ (c. i. 1), it is highly probable that they were not left by Catullus as we find them. C. 2, beginning 'Passer, deliciae meae puellae,' was the first of a series of short poems. Cf. Martial, iv. 14, 13, 'Sic forsan tener ausus est Catullus magno mittere passerem Maroni';[37] the book being named from its first word, like _Arma virumque_ of the _Aeneid_. C. 1 (to Cornelius Nepos) is the first of another series of short pieces (cf. the epithet _nugae_ in l. 4). Catullus doubtless published his larger pieces together. The traditional arrangement, due to a later hand, is as follows: (1) The lyric poems in various metres; (2) the larger poems and the elegies; (3) the shorter poems written in elegiacs. Catullus began to be popular as soon as his works were published; cf. Nep. _Att._ 12, 4 (quoted p. 124). He is imitated in the _Priapea_, in Ovid, in Ausonius, in the _Ciris_, in Martial, etc. C. 4 is closely parodied in Verg. _Catal._ 8. CONTEMPORARY POETS: (_a_) _Ticidas_ wrote the Hymenaeus and love-poems on Perilla. For the latter cf. Ovid, _Trist._ ii. 433-4 and 437-8 (read by Riese immediately after), 'Quid referam Ticidae, quid Memmi carmen, apud quos rebus adest nomen nominibusque pudor, et quorum libris modo dissimulata Perillae nomine nunc legitur dicta, Metelle, tuo?' (_b_) _C. Helvius Cinna_ was intimate with Catullus, who refers to him in c. 10 as being along with him in Bithynia in B.C. 57. See p. 136. From the reference to Gallia Cisalpina in Cinna, frag. I (Bährens), we might conclude that he was a countryman of Catullus, 'At nunc me Cenumana per salicta bigis raeda rapit citata nanis.' In Sueton. _Iul._ 52, Cinna is spoken of as a partisan of Caesar: 'Helvius Cinna tribunus plebis,' etc.; and he is probably identical with the person mentioned _ibid._ 85, as put to death in mistake for a man of the same name shortly after the murder of Caesar: 'Plebs statim a funere ad domum Bruti et Cassii cum facibus tetendit, atque aegre repulsa, obvium sibi Helvium Cinnam per errorem nominis, quasi Cornelius is esset, quem graviter pridie contionatum de Caesare requirebat, occidit caputque eius praefixum hastae circumtulit.' Cf. especially Plutarch, _Brut._ 20, ἦν δέ τις Κίννας, ποιητικὸς ἀνὴρ, οὐδὲν τῆς αἰτίας μετέχων, ἀλλὰ καὶ φίλος Καίσαρος γεγονὼς, etc.[38]