A recent posting in the Britarch mailing list referred to a Poem of Catullus which mentions, it was said, a Eunoch of the Goddess the Cybele. I often use a poem by Ovid which mentions the 'Votaries of the Cybele ululating in high pitched chorus with their Phyrgian Fashions' and so looked up the Poem - Poem 78 http://rudy.negenborn.net/catullus/text2/e78.htm This left me in some doubt as to whether the poem is about a Eunuch Although the context of Poem 78 is following poems about the Cybele, and one meaning of a gallus is a eunuch of the Cybele. but as you will see, in this translation, Gallus is married. Wikipedia also tells me that Gallus can mean many things, including: People several ancient Romans; see Gallus (cognomen) ... Gallus , the Latin word for an inhabitant of Gaul Gallus , the singular form of Galli , the eunuch priests of Cybele Animal-related Gallus , the Latin word for rooster or cockerel Gallus (genus) , a bird g...