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[5-6] With the sentiment cf. Ov. Trist. 2.354 “vita verecunda est, Musa iocosa mea” ; Mart. 1.4.8 “lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba” ; Hadr. apud Apul. Apol. 2 “lascivus versu, mente pudicus eras” ; Sen. Contr. exc. 6.8 “quid tu putas poetas, quae sentiunt, scribere? Vixit modeste, castigate” ; Plin. Ep. 4.14.5:

“ To his book's end this last line he'd have placed,
Jocund his Muse was, but his life was chaste
”
Rob. Herrick

; and per contra Sen. Ep. 114.3.

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

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