Little is known about my life except for references to me in Suetonius and Ovid. I was rumored to have been born in 84 B.C.E. of equestrian birth. My poems were appreciated by many Roman intellectuals of my time and continue to be widely read by bored schoolchildren, who often fail to see my trenchant amorality and shocking crassness. These charged and highly emotional poems influenced poets like Ovid and Horace. Many of them were written as erotic homages to a girl I call Lesbia (who many think was a nickname for Clodia, the sister of Publius Clodius Pulcher). Some of my poems also indicate that I enjoyed a bit of cock and bum fun with the dudes as well. I died in 54 B.C.E. at the age of thirty.
