Nicarchus, Greek Anthology 11.242
“I can never tell whether Diodorus is yawning or farting; from the top or from the bottom, it’s the same smell either way.”
Οὐ δύναμαι γνῶναι, πότερον χαίνει Διόδωρος
ἢ βδῆσ’· ἓν γὰρ ἔχει πνεῦμα κάτω καὶ ἄνω.
Diodorus = Di-Odorous
This is another great poem. My senile memory might be wrong, but isn’t the “confusing ass for mouth” line a bit of a motif in elegiac invective? I am pretty sure Catullus has one like this and suspect Martial does too….
Thank you for this! One question: where is the image from?