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Catullus 27

It’s time to drink - bring on the wine. And don’t mix it with water, please. This wine is too good to be diluted.

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Minister vetuli puer Falerni
inger mi calices amariores,
ut lex Postumiae iubet magistrae
ebrioso acino ebriosioris.
at vos quo lubet hinc abite, lymphae,.................5
vini pernicies, et ad severos
migrate. hic merus est Thyonianus.

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Meter: hendecasyllabics.
1. Falerni: Genitive with vetuli. Falernian was a kind of wine.
2. mi: mihi
3. Postumiae: A woman here named Postumia acts as mistress of drinking, i.e., the one who decides what wine should be drunk and how.
4. ebrioso acino: Ablative of Comparison; 
ebriosioris: Genitive modifying Postumiae.
6. severos: sc. viros.
7. Thyonianus: "the Thyonian" (i.e., Bacchus). Thyone is Semele, Bacchus' mother.
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