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[2] Aureli: see Intr. 37, Intr. 41. If not an intimate and warm friend, Aurelius must have been at this time on good terms with Catullus, or Juventius would not have been entrusted to his care. And, allowing for traditional grossness of language (cf. Intr. 32), there is no tone of unfriendliness in this poem. But Aurelius (and his friend Furius; cf. Catul. 23.1 and Catul. 24.1) betrayed the trust, and from this occasion dates the enmity of Catullus toward them.


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