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daughters the dowries a father provides. He promoted my son
Cottanus to the rank of tribune in which he bravely served in Caesar’s army. What did Cotta not give us? Now, sadly, he provided these verses which can be read on my tomb.
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outside of Rome with his wife, Aurelia
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of homosexuality, ridiculing a banquet held to
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