Sunday, January 14, 2024
Some Insults
Plautus, Poenulus 1309-1314 (tr. Wolfgang de Melo):
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You shoelace, go and be hanged!Critical apparatus from the edition of Goetz and Loewe:
Do you dare to be a lover here, you dregs of a man,
or to touch what men love?
You skinned sprat, Persian tunic, mantle,
sheepskin coat, salt market, crushed olive, and more stuffed with
common and Phoenician garlic than Roman rowers!
ligula, i in malam crucem!
tune hic amator audes esse, hallex viri, 1310
aut contrectare quod mares homines amant?
deglupta maena, sarrapis, sementium,
manstruca, halagora, sampsa, tum autem plenior
ali ulpicique quam Romani remiges.
