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
  11. On nape of neck had ever borne!)
  12. Then she, as pathic piece became,
  13. "Prithee Catullus mine, those same
  14. Lend me, Serapis-wards I'd hie." ---
  15. "Easy, on no-wise, no," quoth I,
  16. "Whate'er was mine, I lately said
  17. Is some mistake, my camarade
  18. One Cinna-Gaius-bought the lot,