Divus Julius
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That he had intrigues likewise with married women in the provinces, appears from this distich, which was as much repeated in the Gallic triumph as the former:
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Watch well your wives, ye cits, we bring a blade,
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A bald-pate master of the wenching trade.
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Thy gold was spent on many a Gallic w—e;
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Exhausted now, thou com'st to borrow more.Urbani, servate uxores; meechum calvum adducimus: Aurum in Gallia effutuisti, hic sumpsisti mutuum.