Love it! Waste paper. Since I live (really) in Borneo, and "Sarawak Pepper Flavors the World" as the advertising goes, I take pleasure in Horace's Ep. 2.1.269. Our back yard in Sarawak is infested with *Cyperus aromatica*, related to *Cyperus papyrus*. It's an awful weed. Stems too tiny to make paper out of.
The list of names in ll. 12-15, if the readings are correct, is a little suspicious; the usual Cypriot suspects are reinforced with places, as you write, from the Adriatic. But Urii (Uria) is inland. Might it be the home town of Volusius?
Love it! Waste paper. Since I live (really) in Borneo, and "Sarawak Pepper Flavors the World" as the advertising goes, I take pleasure in Horace's Ep. 2.1.269. Our back yard in Sarawak is infested with *Cyperus aromatica*, related to *Cyperus papyrus*. It's an awful weed. Stems too tiny to make paper out of.
The list of names in ll. 12-15, if the readings are correct, is a little suspicious; the usual Cypriot suspects are reinforced with places, as you write, from the Adriatic. But Urii (Uria) is inland. Might it be the home town of Volusius?
Lovely idea! Urii is obscure and otherwise unexplained.
Some see a pun with apertos (‘exposed’, οὔριος) or an association with uro, burn. Given cacata carta, perhaps there’s a hint of urina!
I did think of οὖρον (no, really!) and nothing is beyond Catullus' Alexandrian whimsy.
TIL the word “bumf.” By way of Catullus. Sort of.
Forgot to add: great article! Really enjoy listening to the Latin.