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Licinius Calvus, C. (Return to List) (Previous Poet) All translations are © 1999-2000 by Ulysses K. Vestal. Curius (FLP 201.1; Ascon. In Toga Candida St. 72) Curius hic notissimus fuit aleator damnatusque postea est. In hunc est hendecasyllabus Calvi elegans: et talis Curius pereruditus. This Curius was a very notorious gambler and afterwards he was condemned. Against him there is Calvus' choice line of hendecasyllabics: and Curius, such a remarkably learned man. Country Life (FLP 202.2; Gell. 9.12.10) C. Calvus in poematis laboriosus dicit non, ut vulgo dicitur, qui laborat, sed in quo laboratur. durum rus fugit et laboriosum. In a poem Gaius Calvus means "toilsome," not, as it is commonly meant, as he who toils, but [as something] in which there is toil. The country shuns what is harsh and toilsome. Tigellus (FLP 202.3; Porphyrio ad Hor. Serm. 1.3.1) de eodem Hermogene loquens Sardum dixit: Sardi Tigelli putidum caput venit. When speaking about this same Hermogenes he said Sardinian. The foul person of Tigellius the Sardinian is for sale. A Bride (FLP 203.4; Charis. 186B=147K) "ungui" Licinius Calvus in poemate: vaga candido nympha quod secet ungui. Licinius Calvus [wrote] "with a nail" in a poem: Which the fickle bride might cut with a white nail. Venus the God (FLP 204.7; Serv. Aen. 2.632) Utrisque sexus participationem habere numina; nam ait Calvus: pollentemque deum Venerem. The gods have a part of each sex; for Calvus says: and the powerful god Venus. Pedicator Caesaris (FLP 210.17; Suet. Iul. 49.1) [Ommito Calvi Licini notissimos versus:] Bithynia quicquid et pedicator Caesaris umquam habuit. [I omit the very well-known verses of Calvus Licinius:] Whatever Bithynia and the sodomite of Caesar ever possessed An Epigram on Pompey (FLP 210.18; Schol. Juv. 9.133) Magnus, quem metuunt omnes, digito caput uno scalpit; quid credas hunc sibi velle? virum. Magnus, whom everyone fears, scratches his head with one finger; what do you think that this man wants for himself? A man. |
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