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Mamurra (fl. 1st century BC) was a Roman military officer who served under Julius Caesar.
Mamurra of *Formiae, praefectus fabrum (‘officer of engineers’) under *Caesar in Spain (61–60 bce) and Gaul, where he accumulated great wealth.
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ON MAMURRA AND JULIUS CAESAR. Right well are paired these Cinaedes sans shame. Mamurra and Caesar, both of pathic fame. No wonder! Both are fouled with foulest blight, One urban being, Formian t'other wight, And deeply printed with indelible stain: Morbose is either, and the twin-like twain.
Overview. Mamurra. Quick Reference. Of Formiae, praefectus fabrum (‘officer of engineers’) under Caesar in Spain (61–60 bc) and Gaul, where he accumulated great wealth. His extravagance aroused ill feeling, and Catullus (1) (poems 29 ... From: Mamurra in The Oxford Classical Dictionary » Subjects: Classical studies.
Extract. One of the hallmarks of Latin love poetry is its seemingly oppositional stance toward traditional Roman values.
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henchman Mamurra, whom the poet scurrilously dubs Mentula (Prick) here as well as in poems 94 and 105. The identity seems clear from poem 29, where Catullus, in censuring Caesar and, implicitly, Pompey for supporting Mamurra, describes him as ista vestra diffututa mentula (13). As Munro observes on this vulgarism in poem 29, "the word is
