Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. "Prithee Catullus mine, those same
  2. Lend me, Serapis-wards I'd hie." ---
  3. "Easy, on no-wise, no," quoth I,
  4. "Whate'er was mine, I lately said
  5. Is some mistake, my camarade
  6. One Cinna-Gaius-bought the lot,
  7. But his or mine, it matters what?
  8. I use it freely as though bought,
  9. Yet thou, pert troubler, most absurd,
  10. None suffer'st speak an idle word."
  1. Furius and Aurelius, Catullus' friends,
  2. Whether extremest Indian shore he brave,
  3. Strands where far-resounding billow rends
  4. The shattered wave,
  5. Or 'mid Hyrcanians dwell he, Arabs soft and wild,
  6. Sacis and Parthians of the arrow fain,
  7. Or where the Seven-mouth'd Nilus mud-defiled