Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- In words unkempt :—
- Live she and love she wenchers several,
- Embrace three hundred wi' the like requitals,
- None truly loving and withal of all
- Bursting the vitals:
- My love regard she not, my love of yore,
- Which fell through fault of her, as falls the fair
- Last meadow-floret whenas passed it o'er
- touch of the share.
- Marrúcinus Asinius! ill thou usest
- That hand sinistral in thy wit and wine
- Filching the napkins of more heedless hosts.
- Dost find this funny? Fool it passeth thee
- How 'tis a sordid deed, a sorry jest.
- Dost misbelieve me? Trust to Pollio,
- Thy brother, ready to compound such thefts
- E'en at a talent's cost; for he's a youth
- In speech past master and in fair pleasantries.
- Of hendecasyllabics hundreds three
- Therefore expect thou, or return forthright