Carmina, Catullus, Gaius Valerius, creator; Merrill, Elmer Truesdell, 1860-1936, editor
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Elegiac
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Non (ita me di ament) quicquam referre putavi
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utrumne os an culum olfacerem Aemilio.
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nilo mundius hoc, nihiloque immundius illud,
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verum etiam culus mundior et melior:
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nam sine dentibus est. hoc dentis sesquipedalis,
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gingivas vero ploxeni habet veteris,
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praeterea rictum qualem diffissus in aestu
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meientis mulae cunnus habere solet.
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hic futuit multas et se facit esse venustum,
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et non pistrino traditur atque asino?
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quem si qua attingit, non illam posse putemus
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aegroti culum lingere carnificis?
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