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Poggio Bracciolini. "The obscene comparison of the teeth that threatened to fall out." Global Medieval Sourcebook.Transcription from Basel 1538 (Reprinted in Poggio Bracciolini, Scripta in editione Basilensi anno 1538 collata. Ed. Riccardo Fulbini. Turin: Bottega d'Erasmo, 1964.) .
De dentibus casum minantibus similitudo obscena | The obscene comparison of the teeth that threatened to fall out
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De dentibus casum minantibus similitudo obscena | The obscene comparison of the teeth that threatened to fall out
by Poggio Bracciolini
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Facetia CCLXXIII Joke 273
Episcopus mihi notus senior querebatur quosdam dentes sibi cecidisse, quosdam ita labare, ut eorum casum timeret. An older bishop I know used to complain that some of his teeth had fallen out, and that others were so loose that he feared they would fall out. Tum unus e familia: Then one of his kin said: Tum unus e familia: ‘Ne timeatis’ inquit ‘dentum casum’. “Don’t be afraid that they’ll fall out!” Petenti causam episcipo: When the bishop asked why, he replied: ‘Quia testiculi mei’ respondit ‘iam quadraginta annis pependerunt, casuro similes, et tamen nunquam ceciderunt’. “For forty years my testicles have already been hanging like they are about to fall off, but they have still never fallen off.”
Facetia CCLXXIII Joke 273
Episcopus mihi notus senior querebatur quosdam dentes sibi cecidisse, quosdam ita labare, ut eorum casum timeret. An older bishop I know used to complain that some of his teeth had fallen out, and that others were so loose that he feared they would fall out. Tum unus e familia: Then one of his kin said: Tum unus e familia: ‘Ne timeatis’ inquit ‘dentum casum’. “Don’t be afraid that they’ll fall out!” Petenti causam episcipo: When the bishop asked why, he replied: ‘Quia testiculi mei’ respondit ‘iam quadraginta annis pependerunt, casuro similes, et tamen nunquam ceciderunt’. “For forty years my testicles have already been hanging like they are about to fall off, but they have still never fallen off.”
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