Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. He now in dullness, dullest villain beats
  2. Forthright on handling verse, nor is the wight
  3. Ever so happy as when verse he write:
  4. So self admires he with so full delight.
  5. In sooth, we all thus err, nor man there be
  6. But in some matter a Suffenus see
  7. Thou canst: his lache allotted none shall lack
  8. Yet spy we nothing of our back-borne pack.
  1. Furius ! Nor chest, nor slaves can claim,
  2. Bug, Spider, nor e'e n hearth aflame,
  3. Yet thine a sire and step-dame who
  4. Wi' tooth can ever flint-food chew!
  5. So thou, and pleasant happy life