Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Unto thine own Catullus thou (perdie!)
  2. Did send, that ever day by day die he
  3. In Saturnalia, first of festivals.
  4. No! No! thus shall't not pass wi' thee, sweet wag,
  5. For I at dawning day will scour the booths
  6. Of bibliopoles, Aquinii, Caesii and
  7. Suffenus, gather all their poison-trash
  8. And with such torments pay thee for thy pains.
  9. Now for the present hence, adieu! begone
  10. Thither, whence came ye, brought by luckless feet,