[185]. All these details, and those that follow, are taken from the Pro Caelio of Cicero.

[186]. Macr. Sat. ii. 10.

[187]. Ovid, Trist. ii. 427.

[188]. Apul. de Mag. 10. A learned German, M. Schwab, in a book that he has just published on Catullus (Quaest. Catull. 1862), seems to me to have put the truth of this assertion of Apuleius beyond doubt.

[189]. Catull. Carm. 26.

[190]. Catull. Carm. 86.

[191]. Cat. Carm. 5.

[192]. Cat. Carm. 12.

[193]. Cat. Carm. 70.

[194]. Ibid. 85.