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Two short poems called Dirae and Lydia, which used to be printed among Virgil's Catalecta, bear his name, but are now generally regarded as spurious. They contain the bitter complaints of one who was turned out of his estate by an intruding soldier, and his resolution to find solace for all ills in the love of his faithful mistress.
Among the short pieces called Catalecta we have some of exquisite beauty, as the dedicatory prayer to Venus and the address to Siro's villa; others show a vein of invective which we find it hard to associate with the gentle poet; others, again, are parodies or close imitations of Catullus; while one or two are proved by internal evidence to be by another hand than Virgil's.
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