Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Either as honest to grant, or modest as never to promise,
  2. Aufiléna! were fair, but at the gifties to clutch
  3. Fraudfully, viler seems than greed of greediest harlot
  4. Who with her every limb maketh a whore of herself.
  1. Aufiléna! to live content with only one husband,
  2. Praise is and truest of praise ever bestowed upon wife.
  3. Yet were it liefer to lie any wise with any for lover,
  4. Than to be breeder of boys uncle as cousins begat.