THE ROMANS SAID IT BETTER …

 

1. AHA!  ”Bugger” you! 

   That’s the problem with being delicate—I was running through every dirty word I knew that started with ‘b’. And I was disappointed with how few there were.  I didn’t think of that word as deserving “------”.

   Posted by Chops       11/25/2009  at  05:52 PM  



2. I had to go look up the original Poem it’s from to know why they’d dashed off something beginning with “B” that was 6 letters, too.

   For those interested, the original poem is translated at Wikipedia:  Catullus 16, without the cutesy dashes.

   Posted by Argentium G. Tiger       11/26/2009  at  08:52 AM  



3. What brings it in focus however was a comment, made only in passing, by Christopher a day or two ago.  I think we were talking about the Romans and Latin.

   So of course I had to look it up. Had to have been my comment on What was Hitler’s first name.

   I’m not familiar with Catullus. I have read Ovid. Ovid is decidedly ‘erotic’, but I’m don’t think I could call him vulgar, rude, or filthy.

   But then, maybe I just read a ‘Bowdlerized’ translation?

   Posted by Christopher       11/29/2009  at  01:23 PM  

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