Translation:Catullus 105

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Catullus 105
by Catullus, translated from Latin by Wikisource

Elegiac couplet.

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English Translation Original Latin Line

Mentula tries to ascend the Parnassian Mount:
     the Muses, with pitchforks, throw him off it head first.

Mentula cōnātur Pipleium scandere montem:
     Mūsae furcillīs praecipitem ēiciunt.

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