Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- Wreckt it, —Oh ruinous by-wind, breezy bane!
- Thou youngling drawer of Falernian old
- Crown me the goblets with a bitterer wine
- As was Postumia's law that rules the feast
- Than ebriate grape-stone more inebriate.
- But ye fare whither please ye (water-nymphs!)
- To wine pernicious, and to sober folk
- Migrate ye: mere Thyonian juice be here!
- Followers of Piso, empty band
- With your light budgets packt to hand,
- Veránius best! Fabúllus mine!
- What do ye? Bore ye enough, in fine