Furius, your villa stands
Catullus, Liber, 26
Furius, your villa stands
neither against the winds blowing
from the south nor from the west,
nor from fierce Borea nor from Apheliota.
No, it stands against fifteen thousand
and two hundred sesterces.
What a dreadful and noxious wind.
In some versions of this poem we have "my villa" in place of "your villa". In both cases, Catullus' or Furius' villa appears to be mortgaged.
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