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The Poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus/56
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LineLatin TextEnglish Translation1O rem ridiculam, Cato, et iocosamO what an absurd and funny thing, Cato,2Dignamque auribus et tuo cachinno.worthy of your ears and laughs!3Ride, quidquid amas, Cato, Catullum:Laugh as much as you love Catullus, Cato,4Res est ridicula et nimis iocosa.this thing is just too funny and absurd.5Deprendi modo pupulum puellaeI just caught a little boy and a girl6Trusantem: hunc ego, si placet Dionae,thrusting away: if it pleases Diona,7Pro telo rigida mea cecidi.I attacked him, not with a spear, but with my hard-on.