Social Commentaries
Catalepton 12
Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough (Loeb, 1918) · From Minor Poems (Loeb, 1918)
Proud Noctuinus, thou addle-pate, the girl thou seekest is given thee, I say; the girl thou seekest, proud Noctuinus, is given thee. But seest thou not, thou proud Noctuinus, that Atilius has two daughters — that two, both this and the other, are given thee? Come ye now, come ye! Proud Noctuinus, see! brings home, as is meet — a jug! Thalassio, Thalassio, Thalassio!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
Codex Note
Appendix Vergiliana; authorship by Virgil doubtful.
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