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Translation:Catullus 54

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Catullus 54
by Catullus, translated from Latin by Wikisource

Hendecasyllabic.

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Literal English Translation Original Latin Line

Otho’s head is on the tiny side,
and its owner’s legs uncouthly unclean,
Delicate and soft is Libo’s farting,
insufficient?, then let me displease you
with Sufficio, old age renewed...
again let my worthless iambics
rile you, our one and only general.

Othonis caput oppido est pusillum,
Et eri rustica semilauta crura,
Subtile et leue peditum Libonis,
Si non omnia, displicere uellem
Tibi et Fuficio, seni recocto
Irascere iterum meis iambis
Immerentibus, unice imperator.

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