I commend myself and my love to you, <br />Aurelius. I ask for modest indulgence, <br />so, if you’ve ever had a desire in your mind <br />you’ve pursued chastely and purely, <br />keep this boy of mine modestly safe, <br />I don’t speak to the masses – nothing to fear <br />from those who pass to and fro in the streets <br />occupied with their business – <br />truly the fear’s of you and your cock <br />dangerous to both good and bad boys. <br />Shake it about as you please, and with as much <br />force as you please, wherever you choose, outside: <br />I except him from that, with modesty, I think. <br />But if tempests of mind, and mad passion <br />impel you to too much sin, you wretch, <br />so you fill my boy’s head with deceptions, <br />then let misery, and evil fate, be yours! <br />Of him whom, with feet dragged apart, an open door, <br />radishes and mullets pass through.<br /><br />Gaius Valerius Catullus<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-warning-to-aurelius/
