Gaius Memmius
(
the Social Set of Catullus
)
Praetor of Bithynia, 57-56 B.C.
He was the Memmius to whom Lucretius dedicate the
De Natura Rerum.
Catullus pours abuse on Memmius for treating his subordinates badly:
Poem 10
VARVS me meus ad suos amores
Poem 28
PISONIS comites, cohors inanis