Translation:Catullus 106

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Catullus 106
by Catullus, translated from Latin by Wikisource

Elegiac couplet.

1309149Catullus 106Catullus
English Translation Original Latin Line

When one sees a beautiful boy in the company of an auctioneer,
what can one believe but that he desires to sell himself ?

Cum puero bello praeconem qui videt esse,
quid credat, nisi se vendere discupere?

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