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quid ni: etc. i. e. to be sure, since Lesbia's preference is proof sufficient of it. The play is on pulcher as a true descriptive adjective, and as also the cognomen of Lesbia's brother; the intimation being that the very fact that he is her brother gives him added attraction in her eyes as a paramour; cf. the ascription of a similar taste for enormities to Gellius in Catul. 91.5f.

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

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