Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. 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
  8. Tinges the Main,
  9. Or climb he lofty Alpine Crest and note
  10. Works monumental, Caesar's grandeur telling,