ABSTRACT
Lord Morpeth’s elegant classicism is at work again in this poem, adapting this time from Catullus. Morpeth returns to the subject of Citizen Muskein (from Issue no. XXVII), but with a lighter touch learnt from his source. Sirmio, the setting of Catullus’s poem, is a promontory on Lago di Garda, where the poet had a much-loved home; Morpeth transfers the affection to Muskein’s haven after St Marcou.
