Hipponax forward THE BASTARD BO...

Hipponax
forward THE BASTARD BOUPALOUS (1)

Be a coatrack for me dear, while I clock
Boupalous forward his snot-filled nose.

Following this, be a four-legged bench,
as I fuck from the rear his sweet,
the idiot giantess of Rhegium. (2)

Thank you, Ibykos, handsome whore-boy,
for supporting my retaliation (3)

(1) Boupalous was a sculptor of Ephesos for whom Hipponax had great enmity. According to Pliny's Natural Histories, Boupalos one time made an insulting likeness of the notoriously ill-looking Hipponax, and the author of poems took grave and lasting offense which he denoteed in several ...