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Episode 17: The Most Offensive Thing Ever (Catullus 16)

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  Hesterno, Licini, die otiosimultum lusimus in meis tabellis,ut convenerat esse delicatos:scribens versiculos uterque nostrumludebat numero modo hoc modo illoc,reddens mutua per iocum atque vinum.atque illinc abii tuo leporeincensus, Licini, facetiisque,ut nec me miserum cibus iuvaretnec somnus tegeret quiete ocellos,sed toto indomitus furore lectoversarer, cupiens videre lucem,ut tecum loquerer, simulque ut essem.at defessa labore membra postquamsemimortua lectulo iacebant,hoc, iucunde, tibi poema feci,ex quo perspiceres meum dolorem.nunc audax cave sis, precesque nostras,oramus, cave despuas, ocelle,ne poenas Nemesis reposcat a te.est vehemens dea: laedere hanc caveto.     Bibliography Fordyce, C.J. (1961). Catullus. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 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.   

Episode 18 - Play time! (Catullus 50)


          
        

        
        
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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.    

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


          
        

        
        
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  Egnatius, quod candidos habet dentes,renidet usquequaque. si ad rei uentum estsubsellium, cum orator excitat fletum,renidet ille; si ad pii rogum fililugetur, orba cum flet unicum mater,           5renidet ille. quidquid est, ubicumque est,quodcumque agit, renidet: hunc habet morbum,neque elegantem, ut arbitror, neque urbanum.quare monendum est te mihi, bone Egnati.si urbanus esses aut Sabinus aut Tiburs       10aut parcus Vmber aut obesus Etruscusaut Lanuuinus ater atque dentatusaut Transpadanus, ut meos quoque attingam,aut quilubet, qui puriter lauit dentes,tamen renidere usquequaque te nollem:       15nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.nunc Celtiber es: Celtiberia in terra, quod quisque minxit, hoc sibi solet manedentem atque russam defricare gingiuam,ut, quo iste uester expolitior dens est,          20hoc te amplius bibisse praedicet loti.    Bibliography Fordyce, C.J. (1961). Catullus. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 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.   

Episode 15 - A Gormless Grin, a Spanish Smile (Catullus 39)


          
        

        

      
    
    
  


A brief podcast, featuring some news and announcements, as well as some great Australian music. The song is 'I was only 19' by The Herd, a cover of a brilliant song about Australians in the Vietnam War, written by Redgum. 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.   






Episode 17: The Most Offensive Thing Ever (Catullus 16)

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