#oh catullus

[shredsandpatches]

pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo

My humanities class is reading some Catullus poems next week, and the Norton anthology’s translation of this poem reads “Up yours both, and sucks to the pair of you.”

The footnote reads “This is, if anything, a fairly restrained translation.”

[notbecauseofvictories]

i made a joke about speaking latin incantations. and my girlfriend recited catcullus 16 to me and i almost fell over. idk this seemed like something you would appreciate.

Yesss, because Catullus is my favorite

For one, he was banned from our Catholic school Latin class, and so my teacher snuck copies in our junior year and let us translate them after the AP test.

(We also watched Rome. After three years of in pictura est puella in was a bit of a shock)

Second, anyone who starts a perfect hendecasyllabic poem with “I will sodomize you and face-fuck you” is unequivocally and irrevocably the best. No competition.