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Gaius Valerius Catullus
Salax taberna uosque contubernales
a Pilleatis nona Fratribus pila,
solis putatis esse mentulas uobis,
solis licere quidquid est puellarum
confutuere et putere ceteros hircos?
an continenter quo sedetis insulsi
centum an ducenti, non putatis asurum
me una ducentos irrumare sessores?
atqui putate: namque totius uobis
frontem tabernae sopionibus scribam.
puella nam ni, quae meo sinu fugit,
amata tantum quantum ambitur nulla,
pro qua mihi sunt magna bella pugnata,
consedit istic. hanc boni beatique
omnes amatis, et quidem (quod indignum est)
omnes pusilli et semitarii moechi;
tu praeter omnes, une de capillatis,
cuniculosae Celiberiae fili,
Egnati, opaca quem bonum facit barba
et dens Hibera defricatus urina.
XXXVII
Jacob Brunner
Lecherous House and its dwellers,
Ninth pier from the Brothers with Felt Skullcaps,
Do you suppose you're the only one with cocks,
The only onces with a license to fuck,
And that the rest of us are putrid, rotting goats?
Or, since you nebbish barbarians
Are tightly encamped one or two hundred strong,
Do you think I wouldn't dare face-fuck
Two hundred sitting lechers in one go?
Think again. I'll graffiti your entire kenne's
Façade for you with cocks and balls–
Because a girl who fled my valleys of intimacy,
Whom I loved to a degree no other will be loved,
For whom I've waged a great war, has settled herein.
The upright and prosperous are all in love with her,
Not to mention (shame on her!) all the sleazy
Back-alley spouse-fuckers. Especially you,
Egnatius, master of the sordid, ace of the longhairs,
Spawn of Celtiberia The Rabbit-Ridden, you for whom
A rapist's beard would be an upgrade,
And teeth scrubbed with Iberian piss.