Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. touch of the share.
  1. Marrúcinus Asinius! ill thou usest
  2. That hand sinistral in thy wit and wine
  3. Filching the napkins of more heedless hosts.
  4. Dost find this funny? Fool it passeth thee
  5. How 'tis a sordid deed, a sorry jest.
  6. Dost misbelieve me? Trust to Pollio,
  7. Thy brother, ready to compound such thefts
  8. E'en at a talent's cost; for he's a youth
  9. In speech past master and in fair pleasantries.
  10. Of hendecasyllabics hundreds three
  11. Therefore expect thou, or return forthright
  12. Linens whose loss affects me not for worth
  13. But as mementoes of a comrade mine.