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January - Dolabella: "the queen's rival, the inner partner of the royal couch”
February - Licinius Calvus: "Whate'er Bithynia had, and Caesar's paramour."
March - Bibulus: "the queen of Bithynia”, "of yore he was enamoured of a king, but now of a king's estate."
April - Cicero: "No more of that, pray, for it is well known what he gave you, and what you gave him in turn."
May - Caesar’s soldiers: “Caesar subdued Gaul, Nicomedes subdued Caesar”
June - A random Octavius: greeted Pompey as "king" and Caesar as "queen."
July - The elder Curio: "the brothel of Nicomedes and the stew of Bithynia."
August - Gaius Memmius: said that he acted as cup-bearer to Nicomedes with the rest of his wantons at a large dinner-party, and that among the guests were some merchants from Rome.
September - Cicero: said that Caesar was led by the king's attendants to the royal apartments, that he lay on a golden couch arrayed in purple, and that the virginity of this son of Venus was lost in Bithynia
October - Caesar’s soldiers: "All the Gauls did Caesar vanquish, Nicomedes vanquished him; / Lo! now Caesar rides in triumph, victor over all the Gauls, / Nicomedes does not triumph, who subdued the conqueror."
November - The elder Curio: Every woman’s husband and every man’s wife.”
December - Cicero: “I wish it may be true about the Queen and that Caesar of hers”