Gemina nox: Pornographic allusion in Catullus 51
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Abstract
Catullus 51 may be read as a description of the sexual act of mutual oral-to-genital
stimulation popularly known as ‘69’, suggesting a facetious misreading of Sappho 31.
In v. 8, supply <tum nisi cunnus>.