Verba Latina Obscena

[puer brasilianus]

What is/are the Latin author/Texts full of obscenities, badwords, swear-words? RES IMPVDICAE?!


Gratias vobis ago.

 

[Pacifica]

Catullus and Martial are two poets who regularly got a bit dirty. There's some NSFW stuff in the Satyricon.

And there are the graffiti on the walls of Pompeii and Herculanum.

If you're into really weird stuff, there's a bestiality scene in Apuleius's Metamorphoses/Asinus Aureus. Well, I guess it's only semi-bestiality: a woman has sex with a donkey who's really a metamorphosed man. But she thinks he's just a donkey.

 

[puer brasilianus]

Catullus and Martial are two poets who regularly got a bit dirty. There's some NSFW stuff in the Satyricon.

And there are the graffiti on the walls of Pompeii and Herculanum.

If you're into really weird stuff, there's a bestiality scene in Apuleius's Metamorphoses/Asinus Aureus. Well, I guess it's only semi-bestiality: a woman has sex with a donkey who's really a metamorphosed man. But she thinks he's just a donkey.

With regard to Pompeii and Herculaneum graffiti, Is there any website, book or online database which may provide us good research?

 

[Pacifica]

I've got this in my bookmarks. I don't have pars I but perhaps it can be found somewhere.

This site is interesting. It's in French, but even if you don't know French you can still look at the Latin inscriptions.

 

[Pacifica]

This site is interesting.

Oh damn. That seems to be an archive page. I guess the site itself no longer exists. Pity.

 

[Dantius]

If you're into really weird stuff, there's a bestiality scene in Apuleius's Metamorphoses/Asinus Aureus. Well, I guess it's only semi-bestiality: a woman has sex with a donkey who's really a metamorphosed man. But she thinks he's just a donkey.

Incidentally, the most explicit lines from this scene are found in a few manuscripts, in a very corrupt state, and generally thought to be spurious, so they're not included in, say, the Latin Library edition:

 

[Serenus]

Weirdly, some of the surviving medical texts sometimes use vulgar words, in a rather scientific way. There's also the Priapeia poems.