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Many of the names used in the poem are veils for historical personages. As translator Peter Green noted, "'Cynthia' was the pseudonym which Propertius used to describe his mistress Hostia in the poems he wrote about her; the girl who wept for her sparrow was 'Lesbia,' the mistress of Catullus , whose real name was Clodia." Though it is frequently decried as a Misogynist ic rant, Feminist scholar Jamie Corson has pointed out: ''Satire VI'' contains the famous phrase, ''"Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"'', which is commonly translated as "But who guards the guards?" (Alternative: But who watches the watchmen?) (This phrase has been used as an Epigraph to numerous works, most notably '' Watchmen '' and the Tower Commission report.) EXTERNAL LINKS
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