Catullus and the bridge

Catullus’s suggestion for solving problems that may arise when an older man takes a young bride is to throw him off a bridge into a swamp. Hear Catullus’s Latin and follow in English here. The illustration is from a fresco showing a wedding in the first century BCE.

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