Sic cecinit pro te, doctus, Minoi, Catullus ([Tib.] 3, 6, 41). Voci catulliane nel ciclo di Ligdamo
In the last poem of his elegiac cycle the lover poet Lygdamus bides his sad farewell to the unfaithful mistress, Neaera, by recalling the prototypical figure of decepta puella, the Catullian heroine Ariadne of poem 64 ([Tib.] 3, 6, 37-44). This paper focuses on the intertextual allusions to Catullus in the six elegies of the Lygdamean cycle (opening the third book of the Tibullian corpus) and suggests that the elegiac poet recounts his discidium with the puella Neaera in Catullian terms.