Catullus 16 · ad Aurelium et Furium
Status · Complete
- Text
- Catullus, Carmina 16 (ad Aurelium et Furium), lines 1–14
- Latin text
- Catullus, Catulli Veronensis Liber, edited by Elmer Truesdell Merrill (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1893), via Perseus Digital Library
- Translation
- Alexandros Kalogrianitis
- First drafted
- August 2026
- Last revised
- September 2026
Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo,
Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi,
qui me ex versiculis meis putastis,
quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum.
nam castum esse decet pium poetam
ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est,
qui tum denique habent salem ac leporem,
si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici
et quod pruriat incitare possunt,
non dico pueris, sed his pilosis,
qui duros nequeunt movere lumbos.
vos quod milia multa basiorum
legistis, male me marem putatis?
pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo.
I myself shall bugger you and stuff your mouths,
Aurelius, you sodomite, and Furius, you pervert,
you who have thought of me, from my little verses
which are effeminate, to be not chaste enough.
For while it is befitting that a pious poet himself be chaste
it is not necessary that his verses be;
Only then at last when they have wit and charm,
if they are effeminate and not chaste enough,
and are able to incite something that itches,
not, I say, in boys, but in those hairy men
who are not able to move their rigid limbs.
You, because you have read my many thousands of kisses,
do you think that I am a bad man?
I myself shall bugger you and stuff your mouths.
Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo,
I myself shall bugger you and stuff your mouths,
Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi,
Aurelius, you sodomite, and Furius, you pervert,
qui me ex versiculis meis putastis,
you who have thought of me, from my little verses
quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum.
which are effeminate, to be not chaste enough.
nam castum esse decet pium poetam
For while it is befitting that a pious poet himself be chaste
ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est,
it is not necessary that his verses be;
qui tum denique habent salem ac leporem,
Only then at last when they have wit and charm,
si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici
if they are effeminate and not chaste enough,
et quod pruriat incitare possunt,
and are able to incite something that itches,
non dico pueris, sed his pilosis,
not, I say, in boys, but in those hairy men
qui duros nequeunt movere lumbos.
who are not able to move their rigid limbs.
vos quod milia multa basiorum
You, because you have read my many thousands of kisses,
legistis, male me marem putatis?
do you think that I am a bad man?
pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo.
I myself shall bugger you and stuff your mouths.