Hello Julielai
Not at all dumb.
1. Cat- as in 'cat-astrophe'; + ull- as in 'pull'; + -us with the same vowel sound as
'pull' again. Stress on -ull-.
2. Contemporary and near-contemporary poets - Tibullus, Ovid, Martial - make allusions
to his poems; Virgil is especially influenced by him, and...