One or two poems, in which his final renunciation is made with much scornful emphasis, belong to a later date after his return from Bithynia.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
That Memmius retained a taste for poetry amid the pursuits and pleasures of his profligate career is shown by the fact that he was the author of a volume of amatory poems, and also by his taking with him, in the year 57 B.C., the poets Helvius Cinna and Catullus, on his staff to Bithynia.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Like Otho, who belonged to the same circle, he showed, as consul and in the government of Bithynia, that a man of pleasure could be equal to great affairs.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill