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| BONONIENSIS Rufa Rufulum fellat, | 1 | Rufa of Bononia, the wife of Menenius, fellates Rufulus, |
| uxor Meneni, saepe quam in sepulcretis | 2 | she whom you have often seen in the graveyards |
| uidistis ipso rapere de rogo cenam, | 3 | grabbing the baked meats from the very pyre, |
| cum deuolutum ex igne prosequens panem | 4 | when as she ran after the loaf rolling down out of the fire |
| ab semiraso tunderetur ustore. | 5 | she was thumped by the half-shaved slave of the undertaker. |