E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Poem 111

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On the incest of the same Aufilena with her uncle.

Riese compares Afran. 117 R. proba et pudica quod sum … comparatum est, uno ut simus contentae viro.

viro: husband, as frequently.

[2] nuptarum: Aufilena was evidently married.

[4] The swift succession of matrem, fratres, patruo indicates the jumble of relationship involved. The point lies in the fact that Aufilena's children by her uncle would be her own cousins.

[4] fratres: sc. patrueles; cf. Cic. Att. 1.5.1 “Lucii fratris nostri morte” .

[4] parere: see Crit. App.

Catullus. Catullus. E. T. Merrill. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1893.

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