How it happened that this Roman patrician name had spread into cisalpine Gaul we do not know; but that the family of Catullus was one of high consideration in his native district, and maintained relations with the great families of Rome, is indicated by the intimate footing on which Julius Caesar lived with his father, and also by the fact that the poet was received as a friend into the best houses of Rome,-such as that of Hortensius, Manlius Torquatus, Metellus Celer,-shortly after his arrival there.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
In a little town of cisalpine Gaul in the year 190, the college of smiths and clothworkers met in solemn session in their temple.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
I should think that, at first, they will seek for you in the north, thinking that you would be likely, after taking to the hills-which you would be sure to do, for such a party could never hope to traverse the plains unnoticed -to keep along the chain to the north, cross the cisalpine plains, and try the passage of the great mountains."
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty