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Catullus Translation: pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo (2010)
- nix0n 10y agoThe wikisource link in the article is broken, should be https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Catullus_16 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Catullus_16 Edit: Here's the diff of the current translation there vs how it appeared when the posted article was written: https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Translation%3ACatullus_16&type=revision&diff=6207771&oldid=1844373 https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Translation%3ACa...
- AdmiralAsshat 10y agoSo I take it the submitter went looking for dirty Latin poetry after the Pompeii submission yesterday?
- jhanschoo 10y agoIf anyone's interested, I published a localization of Catullus 16 a couple years back, with the aim of 1) displaying the vulgarity in all its impact and glory, 2) contextualizing the poem in a contemporary, everyday-life vocabulary and style, making it sound as though someone you knew could have written that, which was probably similar to the kind of tone Catullus was going for. You can see my take at https://ifcatullustexted.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/catullus-16/ https://ifcatullustexted.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/catullus-1..., along with a few others, some of them misogynistic and even more vulgar and with less, well, charm. In fact, the venom and baseness in some of them makes me occasionally wonder about the value in translating them as such. EDIT: my post originally contained my translation, but I removed it as I don't know how to do line breaks on HN, if it is possible.