Valerius Catullus

Family: Roman · Role: poet · First appears: Julius Caesar 73

Life events

• Julius Caesar begged Valerius Catullus's pardon and invited him to supper.(Julius Caesar 73)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “he begged his pardon, invited him to supper the same day;”
• Valerius Catullus publicly claimed Caligula had exhausted him in the abominable act.(Caligula 36)
  • With: Caligula
  • “Valerius Catullus, a young man of a consular family, bawled aloud in public that he had been exhausted by him in that abominable act.”

Julius Caesar 73

• friends with Julius Caesar “Valerius Catullus, who had, as he himself observed, fixed such a stain upon his character in his verses upon Mamurra as never could be obliterated, he begged his pardon, invited him to supper the same day; and continued to take up his lodging with his father occasionally, as he had been accustomed to do.”
• enemies with Julius Caesar “And when Valerius Catullus, who had, as he himself observed, fixed such a stain upon his character in his verses upon Mamurra as never could be obliterated”

Caligula 36

• with Caligula (Sexual encounter alleged by Valerius Catullus.) “Valerius Catullus, a young man of a consular family, bawled aloud in public that he had been exhausted by him in that abominable act.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.