Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. So this marvel o' mine sees naught, and nothing can hear he,
  2. What he himself, an he be or not be, wholly unknowing.
  3. Now would I willingly pitch such wight head first fro' thy bridge,
  4. Better a-sudden t'arouse that numskull's stolid old senses,
  5. Or in the sluggish mud his soul supine to deposit
  6. Even as she-mule casts iron shoe where quagmire is stiffest.
  1. This grove to thee devote I give, Priapus!
  2. Who home be Lampsacus and holt, Priapus!
  3. For thee in cities worship most the shores
  4. Of Hellespont the richest oystery strand.
  1. This place, O youths, I protect, nor less this turfbuilded cottage,
  2. Roofed with its osier-twigs and thatched with its bundles of sedges;
  3. I from the dried oak hewn and fashioned with rustical hatchet,