Carmina, Catullus, Gaius Valerius, creator; Merrill, Elmer Truesdell, 1860-1936, editor
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Elegiac
Mentula habet iuxta triginta iugera prati,
quadraginta arvi: cetera sunt maria.
cur non divitiis Croesum superare potis sit
uno qui in saltu tot bona possideat,
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prata, arva, ingentis silvas saltusque paludesque
usque ad Hyperboreos et mare ad Oceanum?
omnia magna haec sunt, tamen ipse est maximus ultro,
non homo, sed vero mentula magna minax.
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