Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Apt for exciting somewhat prurient,
  2. In boys, I say not, but in bearded men
  3. Who fail of movements in their hardened loins.
  4. Ye who so many thousand kisses sung
  5. Have read, deny male masculant I be?
  6. 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,
  7. As thou (Colony!) grant me boon of mightiest laughter.