Quis hoc potest vidēre, quis potest patī,

nisi impudīcus et vorāx et āleō,

Māmurram habēre quod comāta Gallia

habēbat ante et ultima Britannia?

Cinaede Rōmule haec vidēbis et ferēs? 5

Et ille nunc superbus et superfluēns

perambulābit omnium cubīlia,

ut albulus columbus aut Adōneus?

Cinaede Rōmule, haec vidēbis et ferēs?

Es impudīcus et vorāx et āleō. 10

Eōne nōmine, imperātor ūnice,

fuistī in ultimā occidentis īnsulā,

ut ista vestra diffutūta mentula

ducentiēs comēsset aut trecentiēs?

Quid est alid sinistra līberālitās? 15

Parum expatrāvit an parum elluātus est?

Paterna prīma lancināta sunt bona,

secunda praeda Pontica, inde tertia

Hibēra, quam scit amnis aurifer Tagus:

nunc Galliae timētur et Britanniae. 20

Quid hunc malum fovētis? Aut quid hic potest

nisi ūncta dēvorāre pātrimōnia?

Eōne nōmine urbis ō ditissimī

socer generque, perdidistis omnia?

    impudīcus –a –um: sexually immoral, licentious

    vorāx vorācis m.: ravenous, insatiable

    āleō āleōnis m.: a habitual gambler

    Māmurra –ae m.: name of a family at Formiae

    comō –āre –āvī –ātum: be covered with hair or foliage

    Gallia Galliae f.: Gaul, in Catullus' time a Roman province only in the north Italian portion south of the Alps (Cisalpine); Transalpine Gaul (comata Gallia) included what is now France and Belgium

    Britannia –ae f.: Britain

    cinaedus –a –um: a catamite or passive homosexual, one who submits to anal intercourse; an effeminate male 5

    Rōmulus –ī m.: eponymous founder of Rome

    superfluō superfluere superflūxī superflūxus: overflow; be or have more than enough

    perambulō perambulāre perambulāvī perambulātus: walk around in; make a tour of

    cubīle cubīlis n.: bed, couch

    albulus –a –um: white; transparent, clear, colorless (dim. of albus)

    columbus columbī m.: a male or cock pigeon

    Adōneus –ī m.: archaic Latin form of Adonis, youth loved by Venus

    ūnicus –a –um: one and only, singular, unique, special

    occidēns –entis: the region where the sun sets, the west

    diffutūtus –a –um: subjected to widespread sexual demands; dissipated by sex; sexually overworked

    mentula mentulae f.: penis

    ducentiēs or ducentiēns: two hundred times

    comedō comedere (comesse) comēdī comēsum: eat up; squander

    trecentiēs: 300 times

    sinister –a –um: left; harmful, perverse, misguided 15

    līberālitās līberālitātis f.: generosity, munificence

    expatrō –āre: waste, squander

    elluor (heluor) elluārī elluatus sum: overspend on food and luxury

    paternus –a –um: of a father; paternal

    lancinō lanciānre lancinātus: tear to pieces, mangle

    bonum –ī n.: any good thing or circumstance, boon, blessing, benefit; pl. "goods" as property, one's estate

    Ponticus –a –um: of or on the Black Sea

    Hibērus –ī m.: of Iberia, Spanish

    aurifer aurifera auriferum: gold-bearing

    Tagus –ī m.: the Tagus (mod. Tajo) river, which flowes west through central Spain and empties into the Atlantic near mod. Lisbon, Portugal

    mālus –ī m.: apple 20

    foveō fovēre fōvī fōtus: keep warm; cherish, coddle

    dēvorō dēvorāre dēvorāvī dēvorātus: eat up, devour

    patrimōnium patrimōni(ī) n.: estate, fortune

    ō: interjection, expressing grief, pleasure, indignation, or adjuration

    socer socerī m.: father-in-law

    gener generī m.: Son-in-law

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