Gaius Valerius Catullus, 37 "To the tavern regulars and Egnatius"

Catullus insults a tavern full of people because his puella is in there with them, possibly even as their lover.

 

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impudens taberna et vos socii, putatisne modo vos penes habere?

 

putatisne modo vobis licere futuere puellas et putatis ceteros hircos?

 

an, quod vos centum vel ducenti una sedetis, stulti, putatis me non ausurum ducentos pene petere uno tempore?

 

atqui putate: nam ego scribam frontem tabernae penibus.

 

nam puella, quae fugit me, amata a me tantum est quantum nulla amabitur, pro puella cui magna bella ego pugnavi, sedit istic.

 

vos omnes boni et beati amatis hanc feminam, et quod indignum est, vos omnes parvi viri et viri qui feminas alienas ametis;

 

tu, vir nimis multis cum capillis, fili Hispaniae, Egnati.

 

tu quem barba facit bonum et qui dentes urina lavat.

 

Written by Robert Amstutz

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