Your cock was rosy-fingered yesterday;You flaunted it, dear Alcimus; but nowYou’re rosy-fisted to the elbow-joint.
Translations from and thoughts about ancient epigram and its reception. I translated 'Martial: Epigrams' (2015) and 'Epigrams from the Greek Anthology' (2020) for the World's Classics, and am the author of 'Greek Epigram in Reception' (2013). I'm @GideonNisbet on Twitter and post more translations there.
Monday, 23 September 2019
A rude one from Strato: AP 12.242
To get the most out of this poem, all you need to know is that Homer's habitual epithet for the goddess of the Dawn is the beautiful 'rosy-fingered'; and that Greek lovers of adolescent males preferred their boyfriends to have small penises.
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