Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. B roke, neither set thereon Favonius' course,
  2. Nor savage Boreas, nor Epeliot's strain,
  3. But fifteen thousand crowns and hundreds twain
  4. 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!
  4. What do ye? Bore ye enough, in fine
  5. Of frost and famine with yon sot?
  6. What loss or gain have haply got
  7. Your tablets? so, whenas I ranged
  8. With Praetor, gains for loss were changed.