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MENTVLA habet instar triginta iugera prati,
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Mr. Penis has something like thirty acres of grazing land,
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quadraginta arui: cetera sunt maria.
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forty of plough-land: the rest is salt water.
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cur non diuitiis Croesum superare potis sit,
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How can he fail to surpass Croesus in wealth,
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uno qui in saltu tot bona possideat,
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who occupies so many good things in one estate,
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prata arua ingentes siluas saltusque paludesque
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pasture, arable, vast woods and cattle-ranges and lakes
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usque ad Hyperboreos et mare ad Oceanum?
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as far as the Hyperboreans and the Great Sea?
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omnia magna haec sunt, tamen ipsest maximus ultro,
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All this is wonderful - but he himself is the greatest wonder of all,
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non homo, sed uero mentula magna minax.
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not a man like the rest of us, but a monstrous menacing penis.
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