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"english": "You who have drawn pictures of penises, eat shit!",
"roman": "Ut merdas edatis, qui scripseras sopionis",
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"text": "Os et labra tibi lingit, Manneia, catellus: Non miror, merdas si libet esse cani.",
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"english": "We have made some progress in England. […] You, too, if you're wise, will \"fly\" your way here. What pleases you, a man of such great wit, about growing old in French shit?",
"ref": "1499, Erasmus, Letter to Faustus Andrelinus, lauded poet",
"text": "Nos in Anglia nonnihil promovimus. […] Tu quoque, si sapis, huc advolabis. Quid ita te iuvat hominem tam nasutum inter merdas Gallicas consenescere?",
"translation": "We have made some progress in England. […] You, too, if you're wise, will \"fly\" your way here. What pleases you, a man of such great wit, about growing old in French shit?",
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"english": "You who have drawn pictures of penises, eat shit!",
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"translation": "You who have drawn pictures of penises, eat shit!",
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"english": "The pup licks your mouth and lips, Manneia. It doesn't surprise me if dogs like eating shit.",
"ref": "1st c. CE, Martial, Epigrammata",
"text": "Os et labra tibi lingit, Manneia, catellus: Non miror, merdas si libet esse cani.",
"translation": "The pup licks your mouth and lips, Manneia. It doesn't surprise me if dogs like eating shit.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "We have made some progress in England. […] You, too, if you're wise, will \"fly\" your way here. What pleases you, a man of such great wit, about growing old in French shit?",
"ref": "1499, Erasmus, Letter to Faustus Andrelinus, lauded poet",
"text": "Nos in Anglia nonnihil promovimus. […] Tu quoque, si sapis, huc advolabis. Quid ita te iuvat hominem tam nasutum inter merdas Gallicas consenescere?",
"translation": "We have made some progress in England. […] You, too, if you're wise, will \"fly\" your way here. What pleases you, a man of such great wit, about growing old in French shit?",
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