Vulgar words in The Comic Latin Grammar - A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue (Page 1)
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In making love (as you will find one of these days) or in abusing a cab-man, your success will depend in no small degree in your choice of adjectives.
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Hence we see how absurdly the man who drew a couple of donkeys acted in endeavouring to prevail upon _us_ to call the picture "_We_ Three"-- _Ille_, _he_,-- may, perhaps, have been qualified to make a _third person_ in the group, and have "written himself down an ass" with some correctness.
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So dapes may be rendered _grub_, or perhaps _prog_; aspera Juno, _crusty Juno_; animam efflare, to _kick the bucket_; capere fugam, to _cut one's stick_, or _lucky_; confectus, _knocked up_; fraudatus, _choused_; contundere, _to whop_, &c. &c. THE ABLATIVE CASE AFTER THE VERB.