Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. When the Kite-goddess shows thee Gulls agape,
  2. Return my muffler thou hast dared to rape,
  3. Saetaban napkins, tablets of Thynos, all
  4. Which (Fool!) ancestral heirlooms thou didst call.
  5. These now unglueing from thy claws restore,
  6. Lest thy soft hands, and floss-like flanklets score
  7. The burning scourges, basely signed and lined,