Note 153
From Chapter 10 of the Decline & Fall

There is still extant a very pretty Epithalamium, composed by Gallienus for the nuptials of his nephews:

Ite ait, O Juvenes, pariter surdate medullis
Omnibus, inter vos; non murmura vestra columbæ
Brachia non hederae, non vincant oscula Conchæ.
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