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Mamurra (fl. 1st century BC) was a Roman military officer who served under Julius Caesar.
Mamurra of *Formiae, praefectus fabrum (‘officer of engineers’) under *Caesar in Spain (61–60 bce) and Gaul, where he accumulated great wealth.
Quick Reference. Of Formiae, praefectus fabrum (‘officer of engineers’) under Caesar in Spain (61–60 bc) and Gaul, where he accumulated great wealth. His extravagance aroused ill feeling, and Catullus (1) (poems 29 ...
ON MAMURRA AND JULIUS CAESAR. Right well are paired these Cinaedes sans shame. Mamurra and Caesar, both of pathic fame. No wonder! Both are fouled with foulest blight, One urban being, Formian t'other wight, And deeply printed with indelible stain: Morbose is either, and the twin-like twain.
Jan 13, 2023 · Catullus’ poem, in effect, inverts Philodemus’: Where the Greek poet exclaims rapturously over Flora’s feet, eyes, hands and (notably) speech, Catullus condemns these same features – in the case of his target, the girlfriend of Mamurra (the “bankrupt of Formiae,” 5) – for their in elegance.
May 8, 2015 · But Catullus shows in the poems involving Mamurra and/or Caesar that vice and virtue are not dependent on whether one assumes the active or passive position, but rather on one's ability to exercise continentia.
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MAMURRA, EQUES FORMI ANUS. The recent attempt by Paul Thielscher to identify Mamurra with Vitruvius, author of the De architecture has given Caesar's. praefectus fabrum new interest. *) Before that his claim to fame (or. notoriety) had been a result of Catullus' vitriolic attack.
