Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Have read, deny male masculant I be?
  2. You twain I'll . . . and . . .
  1. Colony! fain to display thy games on length of thy town-bridge!
  2. There, too, ready to dance, though fearing the shaking of crazy
  3. Logs of the Bridgelet propt on pier-piles newly renewèd,
  4. Lest supine all sink deep-merged in the marish's hollow,
  5. So may the bridge hold good when builded after thy pleasure
  6. Where Salisúbulus' rites with solemn function are sacred,