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CINAEDE Thalle, mollior cuniculi capillo
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Thallus, you sodomite, softer than rabbit's fur
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uel anseris medullula uel imula oricilla
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or down of goose or lap of ear,
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uel pene languido senis situque araneoso,
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or drooping penis of an old man or dusty cobweb;
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idemque, Thalle, turbida rapacior procella,
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and also, Thallus, more ravenous than a sweeping storm
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cum diua mulier aries ostendit oscitantes,
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when the divine mother shows that the waves are swelling.
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remitte pallium mihi meum, quod inuolasti,
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send me back my cloak which you have pounced upon,
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sudariumque Saetabum catagraphosque Thynos,
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and my Saetaban napkin and Bithynian tablets,
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inepte, quae palam soles habere tamquam auita.
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you silly fellow, which you keep by you and make a show of them, as if
they were heirlooms.
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quae nunc tuis ab unguibus reglutina et remitte,
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Unglue and let drop these at once from your claws,
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ne laneum latusculum manusque mollicellas
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lest your soft downy flanks and pretty tender hands
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inusta turpiter tibi flagella conscribillent,
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should have ugly figures branded and scrawled on by the whip,
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et insolenter aestues, uelut minuta magno
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and lest you should toss about as you are little used to do,
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| deprensa nauis in mari, uesaniente uento. |
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like a tiny boat caught in the vast sea, when the wind is madly raging. |