Not Lucian's Lucian

Not Lucian's Lucian
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Byron himself adds in a footnote that there such an edition of Martial does exist—and I can vouch for that by analogy though not by fact. One highly respected Latin textbook has seen fit to let Catullus inform my students that his ex-girlfriend “Lesbia glubit [literally, “peels”] the descendants of great-hearted Remus at crossroads and in alleyways,” but it's left to me to explain the technicalities of the verb. (“Well, Roman men were not circumcised, so prior to sex a woman would …”)

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