That he had love-affairs in the provinces, too, is suggested by another of the ribald verses sung during the Gallic triumph: Home we bring our bald whoremonger; Romans, lock your wives away! All the bags of gold you lent him Went his Gallic tarts to pay. (Suetonius)

That he had love-affairs in the provinces, too, is suggested by another of the ribald verses sung during the Gallic triumph: Home we bring our bald whoremonger; Romans, lock your wives away! All the bags of gold you lent him Went his Gallic tarts to pay.

Suetonius

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