{"id":9411,"date":"2013-05-03T05:48:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T09:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/?p=9411"},"modified":"2013-05-03T06:06:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T10:06:20","slug":"suck-it-catullus-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/2013\/05\/03\/suck-it-catullus-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Suck It (Catullus 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/files\/2013\/05\/Miller_Cat16_Latin112_2013.mp3\">Miller_Cat16_Latin112_2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The obscenity of Catullus&#8217; 16th poem is playful and satirical, argues Chloe Miller. Rather than literally threatening to sodomize Furius and Aurelius, he is exaggerating the performance of a Roman male. Catullus 16 discussed, translated, and read aloud by Chloe Miller.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/28\/Portrait_bust_of_a_man%2C_1st_century_BC.jpg\/450px-Portrait_bust_of_a_man%2C_1st_century_BC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   \" alt=\"Marble Portrait bust of a man, 1st century BC, New York, Metropolitan Museum. Photo: Jorge Elia, Wikimedia Commons\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/28\/Portrait_bust_of_a_man%2C_1st_century_BC.jpg\/450px-Portrait_bust_of_a_man%2C_1st_century_BC.jpg\" width=\"243\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roman portrait bust, 1st century BC.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo,<\/p>\n<p>Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi,<\/p>\n<p>qui me ex versiculis meis putastis,<\/p>\n<p>quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum.<\/p>\n<p>Nam castum esse decet pium poetam<\/p>\n<p>ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est;<\/p>\n<p>qui tum denique habent salem ac leporem,<\/p>\n<p>si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici,<\/p>\n<p>et quod pruriat incitare possunt,<\/p>\n<p>non dico pueris, sed his pilosis<\/p>\n<p>qui duros nequeunt movere lumbos.<\/p>\n<p>Vos, quod milia multa basiorum<\/p>\n<p>legistis, male me marem putatis?<\/p>\n<p>Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Image:\u00a0Marble Portrait bust of a man, 1st century BC, New York, Metropolitan Museum. Photo: Jorge Elias, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28426323@N08\/4426677321\">flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miller_Cat16_Latin112_2013 The obscenity of Catullus&#8217; 16th poem is playful and satirical, argues Chloe Miller. Rather than literally threatening to sodomize Furius and Aurelius, he is exaggerating the performance of a Roman male. Catullus 16 discussed, translated, and read aloud by Chloe Miller. Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo, Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi, qui me ex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/catullus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}