Mentula

Mahérault has happily rendered the meaning of the epigram in French, in which language there is an equivalent for Mentula, that is to say, a man's name which is also a popular synonym for what characterizes the god Priapus.

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

Acres thirty in all, good grass, own Mentula master;

Poems and Fragments 2006

Rightly a lordly demesne makes Firman Mentula count for

Poems and Fragments 2006

Mentula — wanton is he; his calling sure is a wanton's.

Poems and Fragments 2006

    They with pitchforks hurl Mentula dizzily down.

Poems and Fragments 2006

    They with pitchforks hurl Mentula dizzily down.

Poems and Fragments 2006

Acres thirty in all, good grass, own Mentula master;

Poems and Fragments 2006

Rightly a lordly demesne makes Firman Mentula count for

Poems and Fragments 2006

Mentula — wanton is he; his calling sure is a wanton's.

Poems and Fragments 2006

Vastness is all that is here; yet Mentula reaches a vaster --

The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus