Poems xxviii and xlviii, inspired by his hatred of Memmius and his sympathy with the treatment, like to that which he had himself experienced, which his friends Veranius and Fabullus had met with at the hands of their chief Piso, probably belong to a later time, after the return of Piso from his province in 55 B.C. Some critics have found the motive of the famous lines addressed to Cicero- Disertissime Romuli nepotum Quot sunt quotque fuere, Marce Tulli- in the speech delivered in the early part of 56 B.C., in defence of Caelius, of which, from the prominence given in it to the vices of Clodia, Catullus must have heard soon after his return to Rome.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Britons, guard your own xlviii.
"The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson"
Alfred Lord Tennyson
5, 6, from which they are on the point of being delivered, xlviii.
"Introduction to the Old Testament"
John Edgar McFadyen