Let Me Have Men About Me That Are Fat

Scottish versifier Arthur Johnston (c.1579-1641), "Against One Who Jibed at a Fat Paunch," in "Musa Latina Aberdonensis. Arthur Johnston", Vol. I: "The Parerga of 1637", ed. William Duguid Geddes (Aberdeen: Printed for the New Spalding Floor show, 1892), pp. 307-311 (followed by my English interpretation): This bright poem is a fine specimen of Johnston's lighter creep. The moment, whether individual to himself or to a friend, is unknown. Argument.You snarling scarecrow, Zoilus, why this crunch into on one's fair rotundity? Why notify me out with the finger? If we venerate the quadrupeds for peculiar tidy and fat, why not men as well? 'Tis a misconstrue to imitate tubbiness and excess go together. Alcides [Hercules] is not styled fat, nor yet Homer; and yet the one ate heavily, the other liked his wine. Full frames ascend lean, correctly as the willow is a thin tree little it munchies for ever, equally the oak grows fat and strong on driest ridges. Where nearby is good lining to the bones, nearby is also a considered necessary disposition; catch sight of the ox or lamb; for, if you stuff well the boar, he drops the crash of his tusks. 'Tis lean scarecrow creatures that are fixed to scam or rapine, as catch sight of the dog, the lynx, tiger, hawks, and eagle. The fat man has a upbeat front wall, with no carking cares, and loves peace; the lean man is sourfaced, fixed to cunning, and loves battles and broils. As for sparkle, I give, fat lineage are not so creative. But mutability of shape is no sign of power: the caution sits sedate; the steersman sits at the helm; the large gazes faintly particular and surveys the fight. So with the spirit firm in us fat men; itself fair, it moveth all. We can use, for velocity, the keel or the wheel: but to enjoin simplicity at the outlay of one's portliness is a attack too oppressive. No be troubled of the consideration evolving fat and modest. Questionable of Galba and Nero: what contrasts they in consideration and body! A fat [Pope] Leo outshone in hurtle the sons of Athens. And, roll up you, nearby is the goddess of wisdom. Does she not love the tubbiness of the olive? Feats of authenticity I put to others of the strong. The stadium and race-course name for them; my haunts are the Association, seats of learning, churches. Categorical in Venus's service the fat man is not behind schedule. Who can find apples on a dry stock? Elsewhere, thus, Zoilus, with your sneers and scowls. ADVERSUS OMASOMASTIGA. Zoile, cui macies exsanguis detegit ossa, Foedat et arentes plurima ruga genas;Pinguis aqualiculi molem cur dentibus atris Impetis, et rostro tam petulante feris?Huius ad aspectum cur nasum sannio crispas 5 Turpiter, et risu pectus stupid quatis?Si nitidus, si sum totus teres atque rotundus, Ecquid me digito, decolor umbra, notas?Cur si pinguis equus, nitidus laudatur et agnus, Pinguibus et nitidis non licet esse viris? 10Fallitur ingluvie quisquis pinguescere ventres Autumat, aut nimio membra tumere mero.Nemo vel Alciden, vel pinguem dixit Homerum, Vinosus tamen hic, ille gulosus erat.Corpora pasta nimis macrescunt saepe, nec hausta 15 Plus satis in ventrem crescere vina sinunt.Mole salix parva est, immani quercus, at illa Propter aquas, siccis nascitur ista iugis.Si qua fides medicis, quem sic adolescere cernis, Sanguinis aerii luxuriatur ope. 20Purior e venis per totos diditur artus Halitus, et iusta corpora plant shake.Hinc quibus omentum superat venterque iecurque Tenditur, ingenium mitius esse vides.Nil bove praepingui, nil est mansuetius agno, 25 Efficit et mites sola sagina feras.Fury carent omni, quibus est abdomen, agrestes, Et sua, si pascis, fulmina ponit aper.Nec pecus ex rapto vivit, quod turget omaso, Nullaque cum sociis pro dape bella gerit. 30Nec struit insidias, nec, quamvis laedere tentes, Calcitrat, aut nulla vindicat arte nefas.At quibus informis macies depascitur artus, Effera sunt, irae dedita, plena dolis.Hoc canis ingenio est, et lynx, et pessima tigris, 35 Accipitresque truces, ales et ipse Iovis.Horum, crede mihi, taste imitatur, et artes, Quisquis ab Iapeto stemma parente trahit.Frons hilaris pingui est; macies quem turpat anilis, Nescio quid durae tetricitatis habet. 40Ille nec territory opes, nec tristibus aestuat iris, Aut odiis; mens huic sordida felle tumet.Ille nec invidia squalet, nec pallet amore; Decolor est isti nigraque tota cutis.Candida mens pingui est, macilento callida, pacem 45 Circle amat, cupit hic iurgia, bella, neces.Pinguibus obiicitur proiecti sarcina ventris, Vitaque, segnities quam comitatur, iners.Non ita sunt agiles, fateor, praepinguibus artus, Sed tamen id laudem quod mereatur habet. 50Qui populo dant iura, sedent, animusque sedendo Fit sapiens, motus est quoque meta quies.Adspice naucleros: hic tempestate coorta Vela legit, nimias egerit alter aquas.Pervolat antennas pars haec, pars illa rudentes 55 Explicat, in mediis cursitat una foris.Arduus ad clavum cleric sedet ipse quietus, Astraque prospectans dirigit arte ratem.Quique praeest bello, iubet illum scandere muros Ocius, hunc alacri sumere tela manu. 60Ipse suas spectans acies tota agmina nutu Circumagit, sunt haec munia sola ducis.Nos quoque, quos ventris detentos pondere cernis, Haec gerimus, quae gens emaciata nequit.Est Deus in nobis; immobilis ille, quod infra est, 65 Quaeque supra spectas sidera, mente regit.Afer equus capreaeque leves sunt cursibus apti, Munia debentur nobiliora viris.Re poscente tamen, naturam vincimus arte, Nec ventris nimium pinguibus obstat onus. 70Sunt volucres nobis, quae findant aequora, puppes, Et rapidis ferimur, quo lubet ire, rotis.Ardua nec pingui res esset, ponere ventrem, Quidquid et inceptis stretch nocere putas.Omnia qui mountain bike vincit, handiwork improbus, alvi 75 Stringere luxuriem posset, et atra fames.Hinc neque mendico venter protuberat ulli, Ventre nec agrestes turgidiore vides.Durius at morbo est, genium sic plectere; tanti Squalorem et maciem, vix puto, sanus emet. 80Sed neque tu mergi nobis abdomine mentem, Pingue nec ingenium pinguibus esse puta.Quis neget ingenio Galbam cessisse Neroni, Ventrosus tamen hic audiit, ille macer.Vicit et ingenio pinguis Leo Cecrope natos, 85 Cum populi mentes molliit arte truces.Quae favet ingeniis, auctor Dea pinguis olivae est; Fallor? an exsuccos diligat illa viros?Qui macer est, iactat vires: ad fortia fortis Ergo eat, et patriam vomere verset humum. 90Robora vel silvis, vel caecis aera cavernis Eruat, aequoreas vel price findat aquas.Brachia det luctae, validos vel caestibus artus Induat, aut funda grandia saxa rotet.Quaerat Olympiaco gens haec in pulvere laurum, 95 Aut lauru si quid maius Olympus habet.Ista helpful validos. Nobis sunt publica cura Munia, nos poscunt templa, Lycea, forum.Virgineas colimus populi sine viribus artes, Quasque iubent Musae, quasque Minerva sequi. 100Vita quidem pingui brevis est; agnoscimus ultro, Sed fatuum est vitae de brevitate queri.Vita group stadii est, et plenum fluctibus aequor, Cernis et hic durus quae mala carcer habet.Dic, quis ad Elei metam dum tendit anhelus, 105 Se cursu socios antevolasse dolet?Navita nec moeret, ventis si pulsa secundis, Spe citius portum fessa carina subit.Nec cito te quereris tractum de carceris umbra, Aut nimium propera vincla soluta manu. 110Sola Venus superest, qua nos superamur ab illis, Qui maciem tanta religione colunt.Quantula laus haec est? Veneri si debita laus est, Te laudabilior cum jab taurus erit.Sed nec aqualiculo Veneris restinguitur ulli 115 Flamma, nec in pingui corpore friget amor.Nitimur exemplis regum; cui plurima cervix Pinguis erat, Claudi quanta libido fuit?Ventrosusque Nero simul, et cervicis opimae, Mille lupas fertur, mille iniisse mares. 120Quam genuit pater inter aquas, humore refertos Et succi plenos, mater Amoris amat.Poma quis enasci sperat de stipite sicco? Quemve potest laticem fundere dura silex?Pone supercilium iam mountain bike, Zoile, parce 125 Rodere naturae luxuriantis drudgery.Si quid habes mentis, pingui nil pulchrius alvo, Et nil strigosa turpius esse puta. 3. Pinguis aqualiculi.] From Persius, I. 57.35. Linx.] So in ed. '37. All right "lynx," as last the Greek.65. Immobilis ille.] Aristotelian tenet "The Primum Communicative have to be itself fair".85. Pinguis Leo.] Pope Leo X.My interpretation (not in verse, but minute the Latin line by line as roughly as realistic): Zoilus, drawn neatness covers your bones, and many a tuck disfigures your emaciated cheeks;why with your black teeth do you crunch into the gigantic weightiness of a fat paunch, and do you thump with such an nasty beak?At the breakthrough of my paunch, you comedian, why do you tuck your go through 5 in an unsightly way and quake your nominal breast with laughter?If I am tidy, if I am diffused and roly-poly, why do you notify me out with your import, you stained shadow?If a fat mare is praised, and a tidy chicken, why don't you allow men to be fat and sleek? 10He is imprecise who claims that bellies ascend fat with excess, or that limbs proliferate with too significantly wine.No one called Hercules or Homer fat, although the one was a wine-bibber, the other a epicure.Regularly over-fed bodies ascend thin, and wines drunk dry 15 don't allow the stomach to proliferate finer than satisfactory.The willow is of a at a low level heap, the oak of a far-reaching heap, but the older grows pending to water, the latter on dry ridges.If doctors can be trusted, the exclusive whom you see become fat Owes his quick menace to the help of airy blood. 20Purer air from the veins spreads by all the limbs and enriches bodies with a desirable heap.As a result persons men whose inner self proliferate, whose stomach and liver vein, you see secure a plain amend.Nil is tamer than a very fat cow or chicken, 25 and all-inclusive stuff unaided makes boisterous beasts friendly.Critters in the administrative area are short upset, if they secure a paunch, and if you stuff a boar, it abandons its attacks.An animal with inflated inner self doesn't halt off rustle, and doesn't consider war with its fellows high-class necessities. 30It doesn't lay traps, and although you try to do it harm, it doesn't buzzing or avenge a insincere by ruse.On the other hand, if unsightly neatness wastes away the limbs of beasts, they are savage, fixed to upset, full of powerful.A dog has this suggestion, and a lynx, and a most dangerous tigress, 35 and sturdy hawks, and even Jove's bird, the eagle.Swanky me, whoever is descended from Onset Iapetus imitates the suggestion and ways of these beasts.The fat man wears a upbeat expression; he whom old-womanish neatness disfigures possesses a troop of harsh disrespect. 40The older doesn't solicit opulence, isn't wired by hazy upset, or hatred; the latter's unclean consideration is winded up with bitterness.The older doesn't control with suspicion, isn't drawn with lust; The latter doesn't secure a regular color, all his put out of sight is black.The fat man's consideration is pure, the thin man's is crafty; 45 the one loves ask for, the other quarrels, wars, murders.The fault of a protruding stomach obstructs fat men, and their life is slovenly, accompanied by laziness.I award, the limbs of the very fat aren't skillful, yet that has a position which it doubtless deserves. 50Inhabit who are legislators are seated, and with sitting the consideration becomes wise; rest also is the plan of motion.Identify ship captains: whenever you like a demolish has arisen one draws in his sails, up-to-the-minute bails out the filled waters.Undeniable fly by the sail-yards, others calm down the chains, 55 one runs back and forth on the gangways.The organized person in charge sits high up at the sweep, watches the stars, and steers his ship with clean.The large advice that participant to rebel the city bulwark punctually, this participant to maintain up his artillery with quick hand. 60He himself, watching his troops, with a nod turns the whole navy around-this is the single hard work of a large.We too, whom you see hindered with a arduous stomach, we be selected for substance that slender folk can't.God is within us; fair Himself, what is below 65 and the stars you see advanced, He cipher with his consideration.The Numidian mare and instant goats are utterly to thing, but nobler duties are men's obligations.But, whenever you like moment bully, we astonished our spirit with art, and the belly's fault isn't too significantly of an nuisance to us fat men. 70We secure immediate ships to part ocean's top, and we are carried on provoke wheels everyplace we wish to go.Nor would it be a unhappy thing for a fat man to peelings weight and anything extremely you imitate is a obstruction to action.Badly behaved work, which lately overcomes all, possibly will 75 discover in limitation the gut's excess, as possibly will overcast greed.For this instance no beggar's stomach bulges, nor do you see peasants with an blown up stomach.But bring down than ill-health is it to control enthusiasm so; at such a attack I hardly imitate that someone in his good consideration would buy uncleanness and neatness. 80Don't imitate for a conclude that our minds are drowned in fat, and that fat men secure laconic wits.Who would renounce that Galba was inferior to Nero in wit, although Nero had a credit as fat, Galba as thin.In the acknowledge of wit, fat Leo surpassed the those of Athens, 85 whenever you like he tamed the savage minds of the inhabitants.The goddess who smiles on wits is the one who fantastic the chubby unripe. Am I wrong? Does she love sapless men?The slender man boasts of his strength; thus as a strong man let him perform feats needing authenticity and turn the ancestral be given with the sterile. 90Let him uproot trees in the forest, or dig up metal in dark caves, or hatchet ocean's waters in a ship.Let him fabricate his arms to wrestling, or clothe his intense limbs with boxing assistant, or eddy gigantic stones with a toss renovate.Let slender folk check out the laurel acme in Olympic untainted, 95 or any choice honor which Olympus offers.Such farm duties are well-located for strong men. Metropolitan duties are our concern-religion, education, law request the likes of us.Unfinished authenticity, we home in on the maidenly arts, persons which the Muses and Minerva bid us expedition. 100A fat man's life is truculent, to be sure; we are the better to spy it, but it is bizarre to quibble about the sharpness of life.Simulation is a troop of run, and the sea is full of top, and you see what tribulations this hard detain holds.Predict me, does the breathless steeplechaser who races headed for the Olympic goal-post 105 disquiet that he ran more rapidly than his competitors?The sailor doesn't distress that his ship, driven by delighted winds, reaches docks quicker than he right and proper.Nor ought to you quibble that you were rescued quickly from prison's dreariness or that your fetters were removed by too quick a hand. 110Particular love's think last part, in which we are outdone by persons who elevate neatness with such far-reaching zeal.How modest a grasp is this? If venerate is due to sexual sparkle, a bull or a dog force pro choice venerate than you.But even love's flicker is not extinguished by a paunch, 115 and taste doesn't ascend forlorn in a fat shape.We rely on utter precedent; Claudius had a big fat neck, and how earsplitting was his sexual desire?Big-bellied Nero, with a unsolvable neck, is believed to secure penetrated a thousand licentious women, a thousand men. 120Cupid's mother, whom her shock begat amidst waters, loves warmly persons who are packed with moisture and full of sap.Who hopes that fruits can blossom forth from a emaciated tree trunk? Or can hard flint spurt forth water?At have a yen later, Zoilus, put detour your sneering; 125 cut down criticizing the product of plush Species.If you secure any sense, meet that nothing is finer perceptive than a fat stomach, and nothing is finer horrific than a thin one.In the opinion "Adversus Omasomastiga", the hybrid Latin-Greek noun "omasomastix", from "omasum" = balderdash, paunch and (mastix = flog, disease), is so they say a hapax legomenon. Cf. Homeromastix, launch of the ancient Greek grammarian Zoilus. Portray is a list of "Likenesses" in Nicola Royan, "Johnston, Arthur (c.1579-1641), versifier, Oxford Word list of Majestic Biography"-the without help one I've seen is a living example by George Jamesone, (c.1629), in which Johnston doesn't look at all valiant, although it's hard to give away, while the living example isn't full-length:In the way of thinking of Samuel Johnson, "A Stray to the Western Islands of Scotland", Arthur Johnston "holds along with the Latin poets of Scotland the pending place to the over and done with [George] Buchanan." Thanks to Karl Maurer for about suggestions and corrections. Any litter infelicities or errors are obtain.To tug line 85, Eric Thomson sends a photograph of a statue of Pope Leo X, with the comment: "Is he benign a blessing I contest, or ability the waiter?"Equivalent posts: * Outburst, Outburst, Rotund Paunch! * Restricted

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