Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. And if some coin I made or spared.
  2. "There was no cause (I soothly said)
  3. "The Praetors or the Cohort made
  4. Thence to return with oilier head;
  5. The more when ruled by---
  6. Praetor, as pile the Cohort rating."
  7. Quoth they, "But certes as 'twas there
  8. The custom rose, some men to bear
  9. Litter thou boughtest ?" I to her
  10. To seem but richer, wealthier,
  11. Cry, "Nay, with me 'twas not so ill
  12. That, given the Province suffered, still
  13. Eight stiff-backed loons I could not buy.'
  14. (Withal none here nor there owned I
  15. Who broken leg of Couch outworn
  16. On nape of neck had ever borne!)
  17. Then she, as pathic piece became,