I get it. He cleans his teeth with urine, get over it Catullus! I can't believe that he actually spent hours of his life writing a poem about one guy I was with, as though I was in a serious relationship with Ignatius. I'm not even in a real relationship with Catullus! Catullus is a silly, jealous man.
EGNATIVS, quod candidos habet dentes,
renidet usque quaque. si ad rei uentum est
subsellium, cum orator excitat fletum,
renidet ille; si ad pii rogum fili
lugetur, orba cum flet unicum mater,
renidet ille. quidquid est, ubicumque est,
quodcumque agit, renidet: hunc habet morbum,
neque elegantem, ut arbitror, neque urbanum.
Ignatius, because you have bright teeth,
you are always smiling
and if someone comes to the defendant's
when the speaker causes weeping, he smiles
If they are mourning at the funeral of a blessed son
when the bereaved mother is weeping for her only son, he smiles
he smiles, whatever it is, wherever he is
whatever he is doing, he smiles
it is a flaw he has, neither a refined one I think, nor is it in good taste
ut quo iste uester expolitior dens est,
hoc te amplius bibisse praedicet loti.
so that the cleaner your teeth are
the more urine you are shown to have drunk
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Lesbia- you're ridiculous for making such a big deal about this
ReplyDeleteCatullus- You're ridiculous for ever being with a man who cleans his teeth with his urine.
ReplyDeleteLesbia- I don't need to explain myself to you
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