Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. E'en at a talent's cost; for he's a youth
  2. In speech past master and in fair pleasantries.
  3. Of hendecasyllabics hundreds three
  4. Therefore expect thou, or return forthright
  5. Linens whose loss affects me not for worth
  6. But as mementoes of a comrade mine.
  7. For napkins Saetaban from Ebro-land
  8. Fabúllus ent me a free giftie given
  9. Also Veránius: these perforce I love
  10. E'en as my Veraniólus and Fabúllus.
  1. Thou'lt sup right well with me, Fabúllus mine,
  2. In days few-numbered an the Gods design,
  3. An great and goodly meal thou bring wi' thee
  4. Nowise forgetting damsel bright o' blee,
  5. With wine, and salty wit and laughs all-gay.
  6. An these my bonny man, thou bring, I say
  7. Thou'lt sup right well, for thy Catullus' purse
  8. Save web of spider nothing does imburse.
  9. But thou in countergift more loves shalt take