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Italy (Italy) (search for this): text comm, poem 42
ridentem: i.e. wearing the sickening grin of a mime; and the characterization is still more offensively pushed by comparison with the unjoyous grin of a dog (cf. also v. 17). With moleste in this sense cf. Catul. 10.33. Note the alliteration. Gallicani: perhaps used because the woman was of Gallia provincia, though the adjective may be only a chance one, since Gallic dogs were a breed approved in Italy. assis facis: cf. Catul. 5.3n. lutum: cf. the similar use as a term of abuse in Pl. Pers. 413 possum te facere ut argentum accipias, lutum? Cic. Pis. 26.62 o tenebrae, o lutum, o sordes! aut si: etc. with the form of expression cf. Catul. 13.10n. sed non: etc. i.e. we are evidently accomplishing noth
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ervened (cf. Catul. 35.13n.), or may have been used by Catullus for extempore composition at an entertainment at her house (cf. Catul. 25.7; Catul. 50.1ff.), and kept by her. Si pati potestis: i.e. only imagine it, if you can; cf. Catul. 29.1 quis potest pati. reflagitemus: a(/pac lego/menon. turpe incedere: even her gait betrays her wanton character; so Cicero speaks of Clodia ( Cic. Cael. 20.49 Si denique ita sese geret non incessu solum sed ornatu … ut meretrix videatur ; and Vergil of a different character ( Verg. A. 1.405 vera incessu patuit dea ; cf. Prop. 2.2.6 incedit vel Iove digna soror. mimice ac moleste ridentem: i.e. wearing the sickening grin of a mime; and the characterization is still more