Carmina

Catullus

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

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