12. Thou Shalt Be Pedicate , Thou Also Shalt

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Priapus

Percidere puer, moneo: futuere puella:

barbatum furem tertia poena manet.

Thou shalt be pedicate (lad!), thou also (lass!) shalt be rogered;

While for the bearded thief is the third penalty kept.

I warn thee, my lad, thou wilt be sodomised; thee, my girl, I shall futter; for the thief who is bearded, a third punishment remains.

[1. \"Futuere". Used frequently by Martial. Derived from "fundo", to pour out (the semen).

2. Tertia poene in the Latin original meaning irrumation, or coition with the mouth.]