Carmina

Catullus

Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.

  1. Praetor, as pile the Cohort rating."
  2. Quoth they, "But certes as 'twas there
  3. The custom rose, some men to bear
  4. Litter thou boughtest ?" I to her
  5. To seem but richer, wealthier,
  6. Cry, "Nay, with me 'twas not so ill
  7. That, given the Province suffered, still
  8. Eight stiff-backed loons I could not buy.'
  9. (Withal none here nor there owned I
  10. Who broken leg of Couch outworn