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SALAX taberna uosque contubernales,
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Gallant pot-house, and you brothers in the service,
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a pilleatis nona fratribus pila,
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ninth pillar from the temple of the Brothers in the hats,
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solis putatis esse mentulas uobis,
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do you think you are the only ones with a penis?
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solis licere, quidquid est puellarum,
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the only ones who have leave to have sex with all the girls,
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confutuere et putare ceteros hircos?
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while you think every one else a goat?
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an, continenter quod sedetis insulsi
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Or if you sit in a line, five score or ten maybe,
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centum an ducenti, non putatis ausurum
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witless all, think you that I cannot
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me una ducentos irrumare sessores?
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clintonize ten score as they sit?
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atqui putate: namque totius uobis
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Yet you may think so: for I'll scribble penises
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frontem tabernae sopionibus scribam.
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all over the pot-house front.
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puella nam mi, quae meo sinu fugit,
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My girl, who has left my arms,
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amata tantum quantum amabitur nulla,
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though loved as none ever shall be loved,
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pro qua mihi sunt magna bella pugnata,
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for whom I have fought so many great fights,
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consedit istic. hanc boni beatique
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has taken up her abode there. She is dear to all you men
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omnes amatis, et quidem, quod indignum est,
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of rank and fortune, indeed to her shame
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omnes pusilli et semitarii moechi;
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all the petty lechers that haunt the byways;
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tu praeter omnes une de capillatis,
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to you above all, paragon of long-haired dandies,
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cuniculosae Celtiberiae fili,
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son of rabbity Celtiberia,
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Egnati. opaca quem bonum facit barba
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Egnatius, made a gentleman by a bushy beard
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et dens Hibera defricatus urina. |
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and teeth brushed with Spanish urine. |