In 111<\/a>, Catullus warns her against having children (cousins) with her uncle. In this one, Catullus warns her about prostituting herself for the sake of her lover.\u00a0<\/p>\nIn line one and two, Catullus writes about how kind mistresses are highly spoken<\/strong> of because they accomplish what they set out to do. They get the price they deserve. In line three and four, Catullus complains that Aufilena is not a good mistress because she didn\u2019t deliver what she promised. He calls what she did to him, taking and not giving, a scurvy trick. Remember that scurvy is a disease that opens healed wounds and causes gums to bleed. She must have hurt Catullus, or another man, when she did not deliver what was paid for.\u00a0<\/p>\nIn lines five and six, the poet talks about how compliance is handsome, but not promising are chaste, but she takes all she can. Catullus must have paid for sex and she did not deliver<\/strong> – instead, she remained chaste, by abstaining from extramarital sex.\u00a0<\/p>\nCatullus finishes the poem with the couplet in lines seven and eight. In it, he talks about how she cheated someone who was due. This makes her greedier than a harlot who sells herself and her body. Technically, a harlot is a prostitute who sells her body, but Catullus is referencing someone who has sold more than her body. Selling herself seems to the criticism that he is giving to Aufilena, who must have sold her promises and faith in a dirty trick that opened up old wounds in Catullus.<\/p>\n
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