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Martialis' epigram relates the story of a man coming home to his girlfriend after having left to compete in the Capitolia so that she can fulfill her promise 'to lick, innocent girl, what even chaste Sabine women love' (illam lingeret ut puella simplex quam castae quoque diligunt Sabinae; 'illam' implicitly referring to 'cauda', penis).
The epigram does not inform the reader whether Diodorus makes it to Rome, let alone whether he was victorious.
Caldelli has 'poeta graecus' as Diodorus discipline, but I am not sure on what grounds. - CT
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