you cant even begin poems with "i will sodomise and facef uck you" anymore. because of woke .
Holy fuck
Catullus really was dealing with fandom antis 2000 years ago and we are still dealing with them now and they still do suck in exactly this way
rip catullus you would have hated tumblr
Are we going to talk about the fact that the translator turned it into a shape poem. Of a penis.
[Image description: the first image is a screenshot of a Wikipedia article, reading: "Catullus 16 or Carmen 16 is a poem by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84 BC – c. 54 BC). The poem, written in a hendecasyllabic (11-syllable) meter, was considered to be so sexually explicit following its rediscovery in the following centuries that a full English translation was not published until the 20th century.[1] The first line, Pēdīcābō ego vōs et irrumābō ('I will sodomize and face-fuck you'), sometimes used as a title, has been called "one of the filthiest expressions ever written in Latin—or in any other language".[2]"
The second image is the poem in question, indeed arranged to look like a phallus. The text reads: "Catullus 16 / Translated by Scurfield / I'll fuck you in the ass and face fuck you, / cocksucker Aurelius, and butt boy Furius. / You think that because I write tender poetry / That I too am so soft? Pious poets might be chaste- / their poetry need not be, whose charm and wit, / if tender and rather sensual, / can incite an itch / not just in boys but / in those hairy men / who can't move / their limp dicks. / So what if I write / about a thousand / kisses? You think / I'm less of a man? / I'll fuck you in the ass / and face fuck / you." End ID.]
