#luxorius

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Luxorius, a grammarian writing around 525 A.D.

De sarcophago ubi turpia sculpta fuerant Turpis tot tumulo defixit crimina Balbus, Post superos spurco Tartara more premens. Pro facinus! Finita nihil modo vita retraxit! Luxuriam ad Manes moecha sepulcra gerunt.

Sarcophagus

The notorious Balbus, who furiously chiseled all the filth he could on his own coffin— as if he could pump and bugger the underworld into some kind of submission … If he’d had time to think, would he be ashamed of himself?

His recent death had no effect on the continuing flow of that raucous life, that coffin, like one of his erections carried in solemn funeral procession to a pale, insatiable tomb.