{"id":303,"date":"2010-11-19T22:34:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=303"},"modified":"2010-11-19T22:34:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:34:56","slug":"catullus-the-napkin-lifter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/303\/poems\/catullus-the-napkin-lifter\/","title":{"rendered":"Catullus &#8211; The Napkin Lifter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Catullus XII)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Marrucinus Asinius, your sinister manoeuvre &#8211;<br \/>\nletting your left hand hover over<br \/>\na fellow diner&#8217;s lap as he leans to hear<br \/>\na punchline or pour wine<br \/>\nfrom a carafe &#8211; respects neither<br \/>\nthe gods of wine nor conversation.<br \/>\nAnd what does it mean? It means I&#8217;m afraid<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re at your old trick of stealing napkins<br \/>\n&#8211; an act that isn&#8217;t clever, nor even that skilful,<br \/>\nmerely sad and graceless in my book. But why<br \/>\nbelieve me when you can go ask your brother<br \/>\nPollio, a gifted, witty, really charming boy,<br \/>\nwho&#8217;d glad fork out coffers full of hush-money<br \/>\nto keep your vileness unremarked? So either<br \/>\nsteel yourself for a several-hundred-liner<br \/>\nof relentless, barbed hendecasyllables<br \/>\nor send me back that lovely piece of linen.<br \/>\nAnd don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m irked because it&#8217;s worth so much:<br \/>\nmemory is something other than a cash till &#8211;<br \/>\nthe whole set of Valencian serviettes<br \/>\nwas sent from distant Spain by Fabullus<br \/>\nand Veranius as a gift I&#8217;m therefore<br \/>\nbound to care for as I care<br \/>\nfor Veranolo mio and for Fabullus.<\/p>\n<p><em>translated by James McKendrick<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Catullus XII) Marrucinus Asinius, your sinister manoeuvre &#8211; letting your left hand hover over a fellow diner&#8217;s lap as he leans to hear a punchline or pour wine from a carafe &#8211; respects neither the gods of wine nor conversation. And what does it mean? It means I&#8217;m afraid you&#8217;re at your old trick of <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/303\/poems\/catullus-the-napkin-lifter\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,18],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-classics","tag-latin","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}