Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- The boor, and plucking forth with bended arm
- Makes of this tool a club for doughty hand.
- Aurelius, father of the famisht crew,
- Not sole of starvelings now, but wretches who
- Were, are, or shall be in the years to come,
- My love, my dearling, fain art thou to strum.
- Nor privately; for nigh thou com'st and jestest