Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Latin lessons!!! - Update - Filthy poems on the horizon.

For like the past 2/3 of a year, I've guided this one administrative assistant at school through a Latin textbook, and now he's looking at moving into texts.

The textbook has some simpler poems from major classical authors, and he seemed to enjoy the dirtier ones, so I suggested that we might read those - and he was like, "The more bawdy, the better."

So, I checked out books of poems by Catullus and Martial and have already begun flipping through them.

One poem I found is dedicated to a father and son who frequent the local baths.  The father is a thief of people's unattended items, while the son has "a voracious asshole" (voraciore culo) but can't sell it since his crack is too hairy.

And that's all said in Latin!

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