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E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Friends and foes. (search)
(cc. 114 and 115 with cc. 29, 41, and 43), their literary pretensions (c. 105 with c. 57.7), and their licentiousness (cc. 94 and 115.7-8 with cc. 29.7-8 and 57) - These latter indications, however, but support that of c. 29.13, and would not independently establish the identity. 74. A sufficient biography of Mamurra is given by Pliny (N. H. XXXVI. 6.48), who says he was an eques of Formiae and praefectus fabrum of Caesar in Gaul, and quotes Nepos as authority for the statement that Mamurra first of the Romans incrusted the entire walls of his house on the Caelian with marble, and had within it none but solid marble columns. Cicero, too, mentions Mamurra's ill-gotten wealth (Att. VII. 7.6), and in Att.XIII. 52. 1 (written in 45 B.C.) refers to the calm way in which Caesar received news of his death
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 41 (search)
see Intr. 74.—Date, 60-58 B.C. (cf. introductory note to 43）—Meter, Phalaecean. tota: emphatic cf. Verg. A. 1.272 ter centum totos annos. milia decem: sc. sestertium (= decem sestertia) the coincidence of this sum with that mentioned in Catul. 103.1 suggests that the two epigrams concern the same event. decoctoris Formiani: i.e. Mamurra, whose native city was Formiae (cf. Catul. 57.4; Hor. S. 1.5.37), and who is scored in Catul. 29.1ff. for squandering his ancestral estates and the large gifts of his patrons, cf. Catul. 43.5 propinqui: etc. early legislation in Rome provided for investigation into the question of a person's sanity, and for the interests of relatives in such a case; cf. Leg. XII Tab. ap. Cic. de Inv. 2.50.148 Si furiosus escit, adgnatu<