Translation Trashbin - 39. Impossible

Very Beautiful 😍 

2 hours ago, JohnnyC said:

Very Beautiful 😍 

Thank you, Johnny! I've learning Martial wrote some incredible same-sex love poetry that is nothing to joke about. He's only ever shown to us as someone who hated on Gays, when nothing could have been farther from the truth. Thanks again 

I found myself smiling at this. Thank you for this gem. 

So effin true even after 37 years together. Ah life, ah relationships.

3 hours ago, Parker Owens said:

I found myself smiling at this. Thank you for this gem. 

You're welcome, Parker. I seem to have found a new, rich vein of material 

47 minutes ago, re2 said:

So effin true even after 37 years together. Ah life, ah relationships.

Thanks, re2! I know what you (and Martial) mean 

I note that Wikipedia, which does have some rather colorful translations of his work along with biographical material, doesn't mention anything in this direction.  I also note that none of his work appeared in my high school Latin textbook.  I wonder why  

I'll look forward to more.

Like @Backwoods Boy I had to check out the Wikipedia entry on Martial.  I don't care if he was straight or gay, but I was  when I read this epigram.  I bet he and Oscar Wild would have been a riot together at a party.

Quote

With your giant nose and cock
I bet you can with ease
When you get excited
check the end for cheese.

— Book VI, No. 36

On 12/6/2022 at 1:54 PM, Parker Owens said:

I found myself smiling at this. Thank you for this gem. 

"Difficilis, facilis, jucundus, acerbus ed idem;

Nec tecum possum vivere, nec sine te." --

Maybe this is apt epitaph for me,

if a tombstone I'm bound to have  

Just now, AC Benus said:

"Difficilis, facilis, jucundus, acerbus ed idem;

Nec tecum possum vivere, nec sine te." --

 

Maybe this is apt epitaph for me,

if a tombstone I'm bound to have  

 

@Parker Owens Can't you see Gavin Coruptti merrily chirping it as "a Classy" inscription for Tre-Princly Knight's monument? lol 

(A ref to my novel Mojo ) 

8 hours ago, raven1 said:

Like @Backwoods Boy I had to check out the Wikipedia entry on Martial.  I don't care if he was straight or gay, but I was  when I read this epigram.  I bet he and Oscar Wild would have been a riot together at a party.

 

Thanks, Terry! I'm about to post a few poems by Martial the Great Mirror that are of the "serious" variety  I'll follow up soon with a similar selection of his tongue-in-cheek (pun intended, LOL!!!) poems. Some of them are killers 

1 hour ago, AC Benus said:

@Parker Owens Can't you see Gavin Coruptti merrily chirping it as "a Classy" inscription for Tre-Princly Knight's monument? lol 

(A ref to my novel Mojo ) 

I can indeed.