Social Commentaries
Carmen LIX (Cornish)
Translated by F. W. Cornish (Loeb, 1913) · From The Poems of Catullus (Loeb, 1913)
Social Commentaries
Rufa of Bononia the wife of Menenius, she whom you have often seen in the graveyards grabbing the baked meats from the very pyre, when as she ran after the loaf rolling down out of the fire she was thumped by the half-shaved slave of the undertaker.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen LIX (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/166/.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen LIX (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/166/.
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