Lewis & Short

Cătullus, i, m.

  1. I. Q. Valerius, acc. to Plin. 37, 6, 21, § 81; C. acc. to App. Mag. 10, p. 12 Bip., a celebrated Roman writer of elegies and epigrams, born near or in Verona, 86 B. C.; Nep. Att. 12, 4; Hor. S. 1, 10, 19; Tib. 3, 6 41; Ov. Am. 3, 9, 62; Mart. 7, 99; cf. Bernhardy, Röm. Litt. p. 466 sq.; Bähr, Lit. Gesch. p. 184 sq.
    Hence,
    1. B. Cătullĭānus, a, um, of Catullus: basia, Mart. 11, 6, 14.
  2. II. Catullus Urbicarius, a mimographer of the time of Domitian, Juv. 8, 186; 12, 29; 12, 37; 13, 111.
  3. III. Catullus Messalinus, an informer of the same time, Juv. 4, 113; Plin. Ep. 4, 22, 5.