Hipponax Mimnes, you sick aesth...

Hipponax
Mimnes, you sick aesthete! Why'd ya paint a protracted
snake-thing going up the rear period of our trireme? (1)

We'll be fuck with black chance become slave-rowers
for pug-nosed Thessalians. We'll realize eaten by sea-worms.

Also, our nice helmsman will grow light-headed from
pressing tight, in fear, the cheeks of his juicy ass.

(1) A large galley with three banks of oars.
Banished from Ephesos, Hipponax (565-520 BCE) lived often of his life as a wondering beggar in the nearby city of Klazomenai. He is single in kind of the most demotic, bawdy, and satirically cutting