Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. And I may vainly address ashes that answer have none,
  2. Sithence of thee, very thee, to deprive me Fortune behested,
  3. Woe for thee, Brother forlore! Cruelly severed fro' me.
  4. ---
  5. Yet in the meanwhile now what olden usage of forbears
  6. Brings as the boons that befit mournfullest funeral rites,
  7. Thine be these gifts which flow with tear-flood shed by thy brother,
  8. And, for ever and aye (Brother!) all hail and farewell.
  1. If by confiding friend aught e'er be trusted in silence,
  2. Unto a man whose mind known is for worthiest trust,
  3. Me shalt thou find no less than such to secrecy oath-bound,
  4. (Cornelius!) and now hold me an Harpocrates.
  1. Or, d'ye hear, refund those ten sestertia (Silo!)