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In sordidos.
Disgusting people
LV.
Quae rostro clystere velut sibi proluit aluum
Ibis, Niliacis cognita littoribus,[1]
Transiit opprobrii in nomen, quo Publius hostem
Naso suum appellat, Battiadesque suum.
[2]
The ibis, a bird familiar on the banks of the Nile, washes out its bowels using its beak like a syringe. ‘Ibis’ has become a term of insult. Publius Naso [Ovid] called his enemy Ibis; and the inhabitant of Battus’ town did the same.
1. For this information about the ibis, see Aelian, De natura animalium, 2.35; Cicero, De natura deorum, 2.126; Pliny, Natural History, 8.41.97.
2. Battiades, ‘the inhabitant of Battus’ town’, i.e. the poet Callimachus, a native of Cyrene, a town founded by Battus. Ovid refers to Callimachus’ invective (not now extant) in his own poem Ibis, 53ff.
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