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CW: The "Queen of Bithynia"
A number of sources allude to gossip around Caesar and homoeroticism:
#Catullus 93 (nil nimium studeo, Caesar): http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0472.phi001.perseus-lat1:93
#Suetonius Life of Caesar §49 (where the epithet appears): http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Julius*.html
#Plutarch Life of Caesar §10 (on the Bona Dea scandal): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.+Caes.+10&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0244
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