Probably in the composition of this, which he must have regarded as the most serious and ambitious effort of his Muse, Catullus may have acted on the principle which he commends so warmly in his lines on the Zmyrna of Cinna- Zmyrna mei Cinnae nonam post denique messem Quam coepta'st nonamque edita post hiemem,- and have kept it by him for years, elaborating the unfamiliar poetic diction in which it is expressed, and enlarging its original plan by the insertion of the long Ariadne episode.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
To attain this end all the students will, moreover, on each Friday, observe a rigorous fast, and will recite every day at their evening devotions the penitential psalm, Miserere mei Deus'".
"The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, August 1865"
Society of Clergymen
Thus he became acquainted with a famous singing girl called Tu, whose first name was mei, or "Elegance."
"Eastern Shame Girl The Wedding of Ya-Nei; A Strange Destiny; The Error of the Embroidered Slipper; The Counterfeit Old Woman; The Monastery of the Esteemed-Lotus; A Complicated Marriage"
Charles Georges Souli