Carmina

Catullus

Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Smithers, Leonard Charles, prose translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.

Aufilena, that a bride live content in her husband alone is praise of exceptional praise: but it is preferable to lie beneath any lover you choose, rather than as mother to bring forth brothers [cousins] out of your uncle.

He is a lot of man, Naso, and he who descends with you is not a lot of man: Naso you are a lot—and sexually submissive.