Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Pathic Aurelius! Fúrius, libertines!
  2. Who durst determine from my versicles
  3. Which seem o'er softy, that I'm scant of shame.
  4. For pious poet it behoves be chaste
  5. Himself; no chastity his verses need;
  6. Nay, gain they finally more salt of wit
  7. When over softy and of scanty shame,
  8. Apt for exciting somewhat prurient,
  9. In boys, I say not, but in bearded men
  10. Who fail of movements in their hardened loins.
  11. Ye who so many thousand kisses sung
  12. Have read, deny male masculant I be?
  13. You twain I'll . . . and . . .