C. Valerius Catullus Carmina 54

Leonard C. Smithers (Translator), Sir Richard Francis Burton (Translator)

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To JULIUS CAESAR(?)

The head of Otho , puniest of pates

The rustic half-washt shanks of Nerius

And Libo’s subtle silent fizzling-farts.

I wish that leastwise these should breed disgust

In thee and old Fuficius, rogue twice-cookt.

Again at these mine innocent iamb-lines

Wi’ wrath be wrothest; unique Emperor!

Carmina. C. Valerius Catullus. Leonard C. Smithers (Translator), Sir Richard Francis Burton (Translator). London. 1894.

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Carmina (English) (Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.)

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Carmina Perseus (Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Smithers, Leonard Charles, prose translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 54 focus

Otho’s tiny little head is the master’s uncouth half-soaped legs, Libo’s light and delicate wind if not all things I wish would displease

you and Fuficius, that warmed-over old man ¹ 54b_1 again you will be enraged at my undeserving iambics, Generalissimo.

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