Carmina

Catullus

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

  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
  4. Prove thee a pimp and withal surly and savage o' mood.