87), J.P. Postgate (1889, text
differing little from that in the new _Corpus Poetarunt_), E. Benoist
and E. Thomas, with French translation by Rostand (2 vols.,
1882-1890), S.G. Owen (1893, an _edition de luxe_), W.T. Merrill
(1893, Boston, U.S.A., with succinct English notes), A. Palmer (1896,
one of the best of this scholar's works); M. Haupt's text of the three
poets Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius, edited by J. Vahlen, reached
its sixth edition in 1904. Of the numerous contributions to the
textual and literary criticism of the poems may be named the papers in
M. Haupt's _Opuscula_, L. Schwabe's _Quaestiones Catullianae_ (1862),
B. Schmidt's _Prolegomena_, H.A.J. Munro's _Criticisms and
Elucidations of Catullus_ (1878; second edition by J.D. Duff, 1905).
Translations into English verse by J. Cranstoun (1867), Sir T. Martin
(1861, 1876), R. Ellis (above); a recent version in prose with the
Latin text by F.W. Cornish (1904). For further information see
Teuffel's _History of Roman Literature_ (tr. by Warre), S 214, or the
more recent accounts by M. Schanz, _Geschichte der romischen
Litteratur_, i. SS 102-106, and Frederic Plessis, _La Poesie latine_
(1909), pp. 143-173. (W. Y. S.; X.)

CATULUS, the name of a distinguished family of ancient Rome of the gens
Lutatia. The following are its most important members.

1. GAIUS LUTATIUS CATULUS, Roman commander during the First Punic War,
consul 242 B.C. He was sent with a fleet of 200 ships to Sicilian
waters, and almost without opposition occupied the harbours of Lilybaeum
and Drepanum. A hurriedly equipped fleet sent out from Carthage under
Hanno was intercepted by the praetor Publius Valerius Falto and totally
defeated (battle of the Aegates Islands, March 10, 241). Catulus, who
had been wounded at Drepanum, took no part in the operations, but on his
return to Rome was accorded the honour of a triumph, which against his
will he shared with Valerius. (See PUNIC WARS: First, ad fin.).

2. QUINTUS LUTATIUS CATULUS, Roman general and consul with Marius in 102
B.C. In the war against the Cimbri and Teutones he was sent to defend
the passage of the Alps but found himself compelled to retreat over the
Po, his troops having been reduced to a state of panic (see MARIUS,
GAIUS). In 101 the Cimbri were defeated on the Raudine plain, near
Vercellae, by the united armies of Catulus and Marius. The chief honour
being ascribed to Marius, C