Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. In Saturnalia, first of festivals.
  2. No! No! thus shall't not pass wi' thee, sweet wag,
  3. For I at dawning day will scour the booths
  4. Of bibliopoles, Aquinii, Caesii and
  5. Suffenus, gather all their poison-trash
  6. And with such torments pay thee for thy pains.
  7. Now for the present hence, adieu! begone
  8. Thither, whence came ye, brought by luckless feet,
  9. Pests of the Century, ye pernicious Poets.
  1. An of my trifles peradventure chance
  2. You to be readers, and the hands of you
  3. Without a shudder unto us be offer'd
  4. ---
  1. To thee I trust my loves and me,
  2. (Aurelius!) craving modesty.
  3. That (if in mind didst ever long
  4. To win aught chaste unknowing wrong)
  5. Then guard my boy in purest way.
  6. From folk I say not: naught affray