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[15] meae puellae: in half-scornful, half-mournful reminiscence of such passages as Catul. 2.1 and Catul. 3.3; cf. the tone of Catul. 58.1 Possibly Lesbia in this appeal had called herself by the endearing name that her lover used to apply to her.


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