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So as you know, I have a thing about finding novels, the trashier the better, about Tacitus, because there really aren't that many.* And I have just found another one, a German (self-published?) YA time-travel fantasy.

As far as I can tell, it's about a young boy named Steve who, while his family is on vacation in Ephesus, gets thrown back in time to Domitian's reign, where he gets embroiled in some sort of prophecy about a mysterious child who will show the emperor how to become a god...

Anyway, "der junge Senator Tacitus" seems to be skulking around the corners quite a bit, although in at least one point he's ranting about how evil Domitian is for persecuting Christians (which makes no sense); I've been looking at the preview on Amazon, and I can't quite tell whether Domitian is affably evil and Steve is deceived about his new friend/patron's intentions, or whether Domitian is Misunderstood By The Senatorial Establishment and Tacitus is the Villain.
( Hilarity Ensures )

So I bought a cheap OCT of Catullus, on the grounds that I should probably have a real text of it; I have a 1980 printing, used, that originally belonged to Kami Lanette, who annotated really a lot in pencil; a really surprising amount, because most of it is vocabulary that someone who is taking a class that requires the OCT instead of an elementary textbook version shouldn't need to look up.

But anyway, I've been erasing as I read, but Kami annotated one line in the whole text with blue pen. What is indelibly and painstakingly translated in my text, you wonder? pedicabo ego uos et irrumabo. Unsure whether this is a giant 'pedicabo ego uos et irrumabo' to the tradition of classical education that preferred to translate both verbs as "commit indecent acts" or to omit the line altogether. I think I shall prefer to think that it is!