Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. These now unglueing from thy claws restore,
  2. Lest thy soft hands, and floss-like flanklets score
  3. The burning scourges, basely signed and lined,
  4. And thou unwonted toss like wee barque tyned
  5. 'Mid vasty Ocean vexed by madding wind!
  1. Furius! our Villa never Austral force
  2. B roke, neither set thereon Favonius' course,
  3. Nor savage Boreas, nor Epeliot's strain,
  4. But fifteen thousand crowns and hundreds twain
  5. Wreckt it, —Oh ruinous by-wind, breezy bane!
  1. Thou youngling drawer of Falernian old
  2. Crown me the goblets with a bitterer wine
  3. As was Postumia's law that rules the feast
  4. Than ebriate grape-stone more inebriate.
  5. But ye fare whither please ye (water-nymphs!)
  6. To wine pernicious, and to sober folk
  7. Migrate ye: mere Thyonian juice be here!
  1. Followers of Piso, empty band
  2. With your light budgets packt to hand,
  3. Veránius best! Fabúllus mine!