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QVIS hoc potest uidere, quis potest pati,
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Who can look upon this, who can suffer this,
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nisi impudicus et uorax et aleo,
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except he be lost to all shame and voracious and a gambler,
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Mamurram habere quod Comata Gallia
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that Mamurra should have what Gallia Comata
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habebat uncti et ultima Britannia?
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and farthest Britain had once?
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cinaede Romule haec uidebis et feres?
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Sodomite Romulus, will you see and endure this?
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es impudicus et uorax et aleo.
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You are shameless and voracious and a gambler.
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et ille nunc superbus et superfluens
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And shall he now, and full to overflowing,
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perambulabit omnium cubilia,
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make a progress through the beds of all,
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ut albulus columbus aut Adoneus?
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like a white cock-pigeon or an Adonis?
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cinaede Romule, haec uidebis et feres?
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Sodomite Romulus, will you see and endure this?
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es impudicus et uorax et aleo.
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You are shameless and voracious and a gambler.
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eone nomine, imperator unice,
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Was it this then, you one and only general,
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fuisti in ultima occidentis insula,
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that took you to the farthest island of the West?
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ut ista uestra diffututa mentula
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was it that that worn-out profligate of yours, Mentula,
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ducenties comesset aut trecenties?
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should devour twenty or thirty millions?
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quid est alid sinistra liberalitas?
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What else, then, is perverted liberality, if this be not?
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parum expatrauit an parum elluatus est?
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Has he not spent enough on lust and gluttony?
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paterna prima lancinata sunt bona,
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His ancestral property was first torn to shreds;
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secunda praeda Pontica, inde tertia
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then came his prize-money from Pontus, then in the third place
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Hibera, quam scit amnis aurifer Tagus:
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that from the Hiberus, of wbich the gold-bearing Tagus can tell.
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nunc Galliae timetur et Britanniae.
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And him do the Gauls and Britons fear?
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quid hunc malum fouetis? aut quid hic potest
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Why do you both support this scoundrel? or what can he do
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nisi uncta deuorare patrimonia?
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but devour rich patrimonies.
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eone nomine urbis opulentissime
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Was it for this that you, o most dutiful father-in-law
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socer generque, perdidistis omnia? |
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and son-in-law, have ruined everything?
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