Vulgar words in The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus (Page 1)
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As discovery is mostly my mania, I have hit upon a bastard-urging to indulge it, by a presenting to the public of certain classics in the nude Roman poetry, like the Arab, and of the same date.... RICHARD F. BURTON.
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In truth thou affectest I know not what hot-blooded whore: this thou art ashamed to own.
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Varus drew me off to see his mistress as I was strolling from the Forum: a little whore, as it seemed to me at the first glance, neither inelegant nor lacking good looks.
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Who can witness this, who can brook it, save a whore-monger, a guzzler, and a gamester, that Mamurra should possess what long-haired Gaul and remotest Britain erstwhile had.
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Then thou'rt a whore-monger, a guzzler, and a gamester.
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Then thou'rt a whore-monger, a guzzler, and a gamester.
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Thou art Lucína, Juno hight By mothers lien in painful plight, Thou puissant Trivia and the Light 15 Bastard, yclept the Lune.
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That Ametina, worn-out whore, Me for a myriad oft would bore, That strumpet of th' ignoble nose, To leman, rakehell Formian chose.
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Stand all round her dunning with demands, 10 "Return (O rotten whore!)
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Our noting books (O rotten whore!)
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Cry all together in a higher key "Restore (O rotten whore!)
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our noting books, Our noting books (O rotten whore!)
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Wont thou at peasant-girls to jape He-whore!
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Soon as had Atys (bastard-she) this lay to comrades sung The Chorus sudden lulliloos with quivering, quavering tongue, Again the nimble timbrel groans, the scooped-out cymbals clash, And up green Ida flits the Choir, with footsteps hurrying rash.
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Ass, thou hast no sense!
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Mentula whores.
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By the mentule he is be-whored: certes.
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Yet has he many a motte and holds himself to be handsome-- Why wi' the baker's ass is he not bound to the mill?
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This object swives girls enow, and fancies himself a handsome fellow, and is not condemned to the mill as an ass?
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Then be thou e'en at thy will surly and savage o' mood: Or, an thou love o'er-well those moneys, prithee no longer Prove thee a pimp and withal surly and savage o' mood.
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were fair, but at the gifties to clutch Fraudfully, viler seems than greed of greediest harlot Who with her every limb maketh a whore of herself.