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Gellius is thin: why not? He who lives with so good a mother, so healthy and so
beauteous a sister, and who has such a good uncle, and a worldfull of girl
cousins, why would he cease to be skinny? who if he touched nothing but what is
not lawful to touch—you will find ample reason why he is skinny.
Catullus. The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus. Leonard C. Smithers. London. Smithers. 1894.
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