Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Lest supine all sink deep-merged in the marish's hollow,
  2. So may the bridge hold good when builded after thy pleasure
  3. Where Salisúbulus' rites with solemn function are sacred,
  4. As thou (Colony!) grant me boon of mightiest laughter.
  5. Certain a townsman mine I'd lief see thrown from thy gangway
  6. Hurlèd head over heels precipitous whelmed in the quagmire,
  7. Where the lake and the boglands are most rotten and stinking,
  8. Deepest and lividest lie, the swallow of hollow voracious.
  9. Witless surely the wight whose sense is less than of boy-babe
  10. Two-year-old and a-sleep on trembling forearm of father.