Episode 16 - Control Your Penis, Or Else! Catullus 15 (XV)

Mugil cephalus

WARNING: ADULT CONTENT COMMENDO tibi me ac meos amores,Aureli. ueniam peto pudentem,ut, si quicquam animo tuo cupisti,quod castum expeteres et integellum,conserues puerum mihi pudice,                       5non dico a populo—nihil ueremuristos, qui in platea modo huc modo illucin re praetereunt sua occupati—uerum a te metuo tuoque peneinfesto pueris bonis malisque.                         10quem tu qua lubet, ut lubet, mouetoquantum uis, ubi erit foris paratum:hunc unum excipio, ut puto, pudenter.quod si te mala mens furorque uecorsin tantam impulerit, sceleste, culpam,             15ut nostrum insidiis caput lacessas,a tum te miserum malique fati!quem attractis pedibus patente portapercurrent raphanique mugilesque.   Bibliography Garrison, D.H. (2008). The Student’s Catullus (3rd ed.). Norman, USA: University of Oklahoma Press. Godwin, J. (1999). Catullus: The Shorter Poems. Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips Ltd.   Listen by using the player below. Remember also that the podcast is available on iTunes here, or by searching for "reading Latin poetry" in the iTunes store.