Vulgar words in Post-Augustan Poetry - From Seneca to Juvenal (Page 1)

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bastard x 2
country bumpkin x 1
damn x 1
            

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Of the writers of this debased and bastard offspring of drama we know nothing save that Nero, who was passionately fond of appearing in them, seems also to have written them.

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Why gaze at me, ye Catos, with frowning brow, and damn the fresh frankness of my work?

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He is well-read in history and its bastard sister mythology.

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In his white cloak the magistrate appears; The country bumpkin the same livery wears.

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