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A Small Book of Translations: 16 - Catullus 15
Author(s): Alexander Hutchison
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TIBI FEMINA NULLA
It's no mystery why no woman
seeks to place her soft thigh
under yours, Rufus – not even
if you stagger her with gifts of
next-to-nothing finery, or flawless
scintillating stone. The bad word
that wounds is this: you have grim
goat squatting in your oxters –
that is what they all dread;
not surprising, it's a rank thing entirely
and not something to lay down
next to a beautiful girl. Put that
poisonous smell out of existence,
or never wonder more why they flee.
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