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Who was Juventius in Catullusās poems?
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Catullus, bust in Sirmione, Italy.
In the poetry of the Roman writer Catullus, Juventius is identified as a youth with whom the poet had a homosexual affair. While Catullus is most famously associated with his intense and often tumultuous love poems addressed to a woman he called Lesbia, his body of work also records this relationship with Juventius, either directly or indirectly.1