{"id":155,"date":"2006-06-20T08:16:46","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T13:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=155"},"modified":"2013-09-01T18:03:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T23:03:03","slug":"scholastic-humor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Scholastic Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Martial: Select Epigrams<\/em> (Cambridge ‘green and gold’, 2003), Lindsay and Patricia Watson include 4.87 (71 in their numeration):<\/p>\n

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Infantem secum semper tua Bassa, Fabulle,
\n    conlocat et lusus deliciasque uocat,
\net, quo mireris magis, infantaria non est.
\n    ergo quid in causa est? pedere Bassa solet. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For a text with apparatus, go here<\/a> and scroll down to the third-to-last epigram. The Watsons’ paraphrase:<\/p>\n

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Your acquaintance Bassa, Fabullus, is forever cuddling a baby and calling it her darling. The odd thing is that she is not baby-minded. The reason? She is given to farting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The scholastic humor is in the notes, where the Watsons write “the topic receives an airing in other comic writers” and “[t]he inveterate farter is a butt of comedy”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Martial: Select Epigrams (Cambridge ‘green and gold’, 2003), Lindsay and Patricia Watson include 4.87 (71 in their numeration): Infantem secum semper tua Bassa, Fabulle,     conlocat et lusus deliciasque uocat, et, quo mireris magis, infantaria non est.     ergo quid in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,44],"tags":[316],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exegesis","category-latin-literature","tag-martial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}