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Who, pray, except some gamester, some voracious and shameless gut would watch this, who could tolerate Mamurra skimming all the cream from wildwood Gaul, And Britain too, the world’s | remotest outpost. Hey, fag Romulus, can you put up with such a scene? Now, I suppose, that ass—…

Nor were they evenly matched.— The one, with his years dipping towards dotage, grown slack with wearing the toga too long, had now, with peace, forgot the lea der’s role; chasing fame, he lavishes gifts on the rabble; his whole being responds to popularity’s veering winds; applau…

Who, pray, except some gamester, some voracious and shameless gut would watch this, who could tolerate Mamurra skimming all the cream from wildwood Gaul, And Britain too, the world’s | remotest outpost. Hey, fag Romulus, can you put up with such a scene? Now, I suppose, that ass—…

Poem 29 Notes (p. 221-222; The Poems of Catullus ): This poem—the first of several in which we meet Mamurra —is addressed to Caesar and Pompey, the “father and son-in-law” of the final line (24) implying that this poem was written by Catullus prior to the death of Julia (Caesar’s…