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Suetonius records the following as being sung by the troops at one of Caesar's triumphs: > Urbani, servate uxores, moechum calvum adducimus. > Aurum in gallia
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Suetonius records the following as being sung by the troops at one of Caesar's triumphs:
> Urbani, servate uxores, moechum calvum adducimus.
> Aurum in gallia effutuisti, hic sumpsisti mutuum.
> Gallias caesar subegit, nicomedes caesarem, ecce caesar nunc triumphat qui subegit gallias.
> Nicomedes non triumphat, qui subegit caesarem.
> Gallos caesar in triumphum ducit, idem in curiam, galli bracas deposuerunt, latum clavum sumperunt.
hastily translated:
> Hide your wives, we bring the bald adulterer to our city.
> You fucked away all our gold in Gaul, then you borrowed more.
> Caesar is beneath the Gauls, Nicomedes is beneath Caesar, behold Caesar who is beneath the Gauls now triumphs.
> Nicomedes does not triumph, who is beneath Caesar.
> Caesar leads the Gauls in triumph, the same in the senate, the Gauls remove their trousers, they picked up his purple toga to carry it.