Carmina

Catullus

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

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  2. Yet in the meanwhile now what olden usage of forbears
  3. Brings as the boons that befit mournfullest funeral rites,
  4. Thine be these gifts which flow with tear-flood shed by thy brother,
  5. 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!)
  2. Then be thou e'en at thy will surly and savage o' mood:
  3. Or, an thou love o'er-well those moneys, prithee no longer