This man's only government position consisted of serving on the staff of Memmius, the Propraetor of Bithynia, an experience that inspired many of his poems.
This man's only government position consisted of serving on the staff of Memmius, the Propraetor of Bithynia, an experience that inspired many of his poems. His only other involvement in politics was poetic invective directed against Mammura, an associate of Julius Caesar. This writer is generally thought to have had an affair with a woman attacked in Cicero's Pro Caelio. That identification is due in part to the metrical similarity of that woman's name to a name alluding to Sappho that appears frequently in his poetry. FTP, name this poet who may have loved Clodia, parts of whose Carmina describe the sparrow of his beloved Lesbia.
This man's only government position consisted of serving on the staff of Memmius, the Propraetor of Bithynia, an experience that inspired many of his poems.
Gaius Valerius {Catullus}