Showing posts with label Epigrammi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Epigrammi. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Supermen of uncouth manners

Audieris in quo, Flacce, balneo plausum,
Maronis illic esse mentulam scito.

In whatever bathhouse, Flaccus, you hear applause
know that Maro’s penis is there.

弗拉科,如果你听到洗澡堂里有热烈的掌声,
一定是马罗涅那头公牛在里边。

Flacco, se ai bagni senti un’ovazione
sappi che lì c’è il cazzo di Marone.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 9, XXXIII
English translation by Peter Howell
Chinese translation by 孔子 (Confucius)
Italian translation by Franco Zagato

Artwork © Tohad

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

I sincerely pity the widow who never marry

IN GALLAM

In tenebris luges amissum, Galla, maritum.
    Iam plorare te, puto, Galla, virum.


A GALLA

Solo al buio tu piangi, o Galla, il marito perduto,
    perché penso che a piangerlo senti vergogna, o Galla.

Marco Valerio Marziale, Epigrammi, Lib. IV, 58

Artwork © Arnaud de Vallois