{"id":55151,"date":"2019-10-01T12:24:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T10:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/vulgar-work-of-catullus\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T15:07:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T14:07:44","slug":"vulgar-work-of-catullus","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/vulgar-work-of-catullus\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulgar work of Catullus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1st century BCE <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/gajusz-waleriusz-katullus\/\">Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus<\/a> (c. 84 &#8211; c. 54 BCE) wrote a poem that was addressed to two critics of his work: another poet Marcus Furius Bibaculus and senator Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus. The text was so vulgar and obscene that it was not translated from Latin until the 20th century. <!--more--><br \/>\nThis writing is called <em>Carmen 16.<\/em> Sometimes the first line of the poem is used as the title of the work. The content of the work below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"center\">\n<p class=\"quote\">I will sodomize you and face-fuck you,<br \/>\ncocksucker Aurelius and bottom bitch Furius,<br \/>\nwho think, from my little verses,<br \/>\nbecause they&#8217;re a little soft, that I have no shame.<br \/>\nFor it is right for the devoted poet to be chaste<br \/>\nhimself, but it&#8217;s not necessary for his verses to be so.<br \/>\n[Verses] which then indeed have taste and charm,<br \/>\nIf they are delicate and have no shame,<br \/>\nAnd because they can incite an itch,<br \/>\nAnd I don&#8217;t mean in boys, but in<br \/>\nThose hairy men who can&#8217;t move their loins.<br \/>\nYou, because [about] my many thousands of kisses<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve read, you think me less of a man?<br \/>\nI will sodomize you and face-fuck you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"dalej\"><a title=\"Catullus\" href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/gajusz-waleriusz-katullus\/\">More about Catullus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":38111,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-55151","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/55151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/55151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=55151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}