Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Himself; no chastity his verses need;
  2. Nay, gain they finally more salt of wit
  3. When over softy and of scanty shame,
  4. Apt for exciting somewhat prurient,
  5. In boys, I say not, but in bearded men
  6. Who fail of movements in their hardened loins.