Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. To wine pernicious, and to sober folk
  2. 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.
  9. "O Memmius! thou did'st long and late
  10. . . me supine slow and . . . "
  11. But (truly see I) in such case
  12. Diddled you were by wight as base
  13. Sans mercy. Noble friends go claim!
  14. Now god and goddess give you grame
  15. Disgrace of Romulus! Remus' shame!
  1. Who e'er could witness this (who could endure
  2. Except the lewdling, dicer, greedy-gut)
  3. That should Mamurra get what hairy Gaul