Social Commentaries
Catalepton 6
Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough (Loeb, 1918) · From Minor Poems (Loeb, 1918)
O father-in-law, whose riches benefit neither thyself nor thy neighbour, and thou, O son-in-law Noctuinus, thou addle-pate, now a girl so rare, assailed in thy drunken stupor, and in thine, will pass to the country, and for me (how that verse everywhere applies!): "Son-in-law and father-in-law, ye have ruined all."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Appendix Vergiliana; authorship by Virgil doubtful.
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Virgil. “Catalepton 6.” Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/virgil/45/.
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Virgil. “Catalepton 6.” Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/virgil/45/.
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