Attis : poem by Catullus (q.v.) in which Attis emasculates himself in order to become a priest of Cybele (q.v.), Mother of Gods, then regrets. Attis was Cybele’s consort.
... equivalent in English can only be found by the aid of rhyme. No competent critic would declare Tennyson's absurd experiment in Boadicea an equivalent to the rushing, stumbling & leaping metre of the Attis with its singular & rare effects. A proper equivalent would only be found in some rhymed system and preferably I should fancy in some system of unusually related but intricate & closely recurring rhymes ...
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