Lucius Gellius Poplicola    (the Social Set of Catullus)
 
 
Consul in 36 B.C.
Commander in Mark Antony's navy at Actium (31 B.C.)
 
 
Affair with Clodia.
Poem 91Non ideo, Gelli, sperabam te mihi fidum
 
Affair with his uncle's wife.
Poem 74Gellius audierat patruum obiurgare solere
Poem 88Quid facit is, Gellis, qui cum matre atque sorore
Poem 89 Gellius est tenuis. Quid ni? Cui tam bona mater
 
Affair with his own mother and sister. (Gellius was, in fact, accused before the Senate of having had an affair with his step-mother.)
Poem 88Quid facit is, Gellis, qui cum matre atque sorore
Poem 89Gellius est tenuis. Quid ni? Cui tam bona mater
Poem 90Nascetur magus ex Gelli matrisque nefando
 
Homosexual affair with Victor.
Poem 80Quid dicam, Gelli, quare rosea ista labella