Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. All no good: for th' outgoing, income immensely exceeds.
  2. Therefore his grounds be rich own I, while he's but a pauper.
  3. Laud we thy land while thou lackest joyance thereof.
  1. Mentula! masterest thou some thirty acres of grassland
  2. Full told, forty of field soil; others are sized as the sea.
  3. Why may he not surpass in his riches any a Crœsus
  4. Who in his one domain owns such abundance of good,
  5. Grasslands, arable fields, vast woods and forest and marish
  6. Yonder to Boreal-bounds trenching on Ocean tide?
  7. Great are indeed all these, but thou by far be the greatest,
  8. Never a man, but a great Mentula of menacing might.
  1. Seeking often in mind with spirit eager of study
  2. How I could send thee songs chaunted of Battiadés,