Catullus 6
Catullus 6 is a poem by Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus written in Phalaecean hendecasyllabic metre.
Analysis
Flavius is teased about an intrigue which he has in vain tried to conceal. With the general theme, American scholar E. T. Merrill compares Catullus 55.1ff. and Horace, Carmina 1.27; 2.4.In his Victorian translation of Catullus, R. F. Burton titles the poem "To Flavius: Mis-speaking his Mistress".