Quaeso, quid habent isti versus re aut verbo pudendum, quid omnino quod philosophus suum nolit videri? Nisi forte in eo reprehendendus sum, quod Calpurniano pulvisculum ex Arabicis frugibus miserim, quem multo aequius erat spurcissimo ritu Hiberorum, ut ait Catullus, sua sibi urina dentem atque russam pumicare gingivam.
I ask you, what is shameful about these lines, either in subject or language? Is there anything about them that a philosopher would not wish to be thought his? Unless perhaps I am to be faulted for sending Calpurnianus a powder made from Arabian spices, when it would have been more fitting for him to observe that disgusting custom of the Spaniards. They, in Catullus words, use their own urine To scrape their teeth and reddish gums.
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