Note 734 — Chapter XVII · (continued 2)
E. M. Lamond translation
Lauterbach, “Tagebuch,” p. 139, with the disgusting verses: “Ventre urges merdam vellesque cacare libenter | ingentem. Facis at, merdipoeta, nihil.” Within ten lines the word “merda” occurs twelve times. Cp. Köstlin-Kawerau, 2, p. 673, N. 422.