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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393554" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Home Truths for Varus’s girl: to Varus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Varus drags me into his affairs<br>out of the Forum, where I’m seen idling:<br>to a little whore I immediately saw,<br>not very inelegant, not unattractive,<br>who, when we came there, met us<br>with varied chatter, including, how might<br>Bithynia stand now, what’s it like, and where<br>might the benefit have been to me in cash.<br>I told her what’s true, nothing at all,<br>while neither the praetors nor their aides, <br>return any the richer, especially since<br>our Praetor, Memmius, the bugger, <br>cared not a jot for his followers.<br>‘But surely,’ they said, you could have bought<br>slaves they say are made for the litter there.’<br>I, so the girl might take me to be wealthy,<br>said ‘no, for me things weren’t so bad,<br>that coming across one bad province,<br>I couldn’t buy eight good men.’<br>But I’d no one, neither here nor there,<br>who might even raise to his shoulder<br>the shattered foot of an old couch.<br>At this she, like the shameless thing she was, said<br>‘I beg you, my dear Catullus, for the loan of them,<br>just for a while: I’d like to be carried <br>to Serap’s temple.’ ‘Wait’ I said to the girl,<br>‘what I just said was mine, isn’t actually in<br>my possession: my friend Cinna, that’s Gaius,<br>purchased the thing for himself.<br>Whether they’re his or mine, what difference to me?<br>I use them just as well as if I’d bought them myself.<br>But you are quite tasteless, and annoying,<br>you with whom no inexactness is allowed.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gaius+Valerius+Catullus">Gaius Valerius Catullus</a><div class=q>
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out of the Forum, where I’m seen idling:
to a little whore I immediately saw,
not very inelegant, not unattractive,
who, when we came there, met us
with varied chatter, including, how might
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