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date: 08 May 2024

Mamurralocked

, of Formiae

Mamurralocked

, of Formiae
  • Courtenay Edward Stevens
  •  and Simon Hornblower

Extract

Mamurra of *Formiae, praefectus fabrum (‘officer of engineers’) under *Caesar in Spain (61–60 bce) and Gaul, where he accumulated great wealth. His extravagance aroused ill feeling, and *Catullus(1) (poems 29, 41, 43, 57), who had personal reasons for disliking him, claimed that Mamurra had a sexual relationship with Caesar. (On an improbable attempt to identify Mamurra with *Vitruvius see E.

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  • Roman History and Historiography

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