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Gallus has brothers, one of whom has a most charming spouse, the other a charming
son. Gallus is a nice man: for he joins together their sweet loves, so that the
nice girl beds with the the nice boy. Gallus is a foolish man not to see that he
is himself a husband who as an uncle shows how to cuckold an uncle.
Catullus. The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus. Leonard C. Smithers. London. Smithers. 1894.
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