(Boylove Documentary Sourcebook) - A Satirical Advice on Pederastic Sex Acts in a Poem by Martial: Difference between revisions

From BoyWiki
(Modified the Latin title in the reference of the excerpt)
(Added an external link)
Line 17: Line 17:
*[[Historical boylove relationships in ancient Rome]]
*[[Historical boylove relationships in ancient Rome]]
*[[Pederasty]]
*[[Pederasty]]
==External links==
*[https://archive.org/details/martialepigrams02martiala/page/254/mode/2up Martial epigrams (Internet Archive)]


[[Category:Boylove Sourcebook]]
[[Category:Boylove Sourcebook]]

Revision as of 23:50, 14 March 2020

Marcus Valerius Martialis, known as Martial (c. 38/41–102/104 AD).


From Epigrams (Latin: Epigrammata, c. 86–103 AD), Book 11, by Martial, translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Volume 3, Loeb Classical Library (London: William Heinemann; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1993). Footnotes omitted.

22

That you rub snow-white Galaesus’ soft kisses with your hard mouth, that you lie with naked Ganymede—it’s too much, who denies it? But let it be enough. Refrain at least from stirring their groins with your fornicating hand. Where smooth boys are concerned, the hand is a worse offender than the cock; the fingers make and precipitate manhood. Hence come the goat and rapid hairs and a beard to make a mother marvel, hence baths in broad daylight displease. Nature divided the male: one part was created for girls, one for men. Use your part.


Eros with bow blowing bubbles (1958) by Gaston Goor.

See also

External links