If 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,

If 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.