C. Valerius Catullus, Carmina, TO CAESAR OF MAMURRA, CALLED MENTULA

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TO CAESAR OF MAMURRA, CALLED MENTULA

Who e'er could witness this (who could endure
Except the lewdling, dicer, greedy-gut)
That should Mamurra get what hairy Gaul
And all that farthest Britons held whilòme?
(Thou bardache Romulus!) this wilt see and bear?
Then art a lewdling, dicer, greedy-gut!
He now superb with pride superfluous
Shall go perambulate the bedrooms all
Like white-robed dovelet or Adonis-love.
Romulus thou bardache! this wilt see and bear?
Then art a lewdling, dicer, greedy-gut!
Is't for such like name, sole Emperor thou!
Thou soughtest extreme Occidental Isle?
That this your . . . . Mentula
Millions and Milliards might at will absorb?
What is't but Liberality misplaced?
What trifles wasted he, small heirlooms spent?
First his paternal goods were clean dispersed;
Second went Pontus' spoils and for the third,—
Ebro-land,—weets it well gold-rolling Tage.
Fear him the Gallias? Him the Britons' fear?
Why cherish this ill-wight? what 'vails he do?
Save fat paternal heritage devour?
Lost ye for such a name, o puissant pair
(Father and Son-in-law), our all-in-all?

Catullus. Carmina. Sir Richard Francis Burton. trans. London. For translator for private use. 1894.

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Commentary references to this page (16):
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 10
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 11
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 22
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 29
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 34
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 37
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 41
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 42
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 45
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 52
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 54
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 57
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 9
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 93
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 94
- Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Letter LXXXIII: ad Atticum 13.52
Cross-references to this page (6):
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Friends and foes.
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Metres.
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Prosody.
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Date of birth and of death.
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Later years. Relations with Caesar.
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Poems.

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TO CAESAR OF MAMURRA, CALLED MENTULA

C. Valerius Catullus, Carmina
Sir Richard Francis Burton, Ed.