Abstract
Abstract: In this paper I argue that Catullus 11 anticipates the shift from the first section of the collection (1–14), mainly revolving around the poet’s passive love for Lesbia, to the second section (14b–26), mostly focused on his active love for Juventius. My reading has three interpretive advantages: first, it confirms the authorial arrangement of the first two segments of Catullus’ collection; second, it defends the thematic unity of poem 11 by providing a coherent analysis of the connections between stanzas 1–4 and 5–6; third, it explains the different tone used by Catullus to address Furius and Aurelius in different poems.