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Notes Do not display Latin text | Julius Caesar, Chapter 51: Affairs with foreign women | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
That he [Note 1] did not refrain from intrigues in the provinces is shown in particular by this couplet, which was also shouted by the soldiers in his Gallic triumph: 'Men of Rome, keep close your consorts, here's a bald adulterer. Gold in Gallia you spent in dalliance, which you borrowed here in Rome. Note 1: he = Julius Caesar | Ne prouincialibus quidem matrimoniis abstinuisse uel hoc disticho apparet iactato aeque a militibus per Gallicum triumphum: urbani, seruate uxores: moechum caluom adducimus. aurum in Gallia effutuisti, hic sumpsisti mutuum. |