Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. With your light budgets packt to hand,
  2. Veránius best! Fabúllus mine!
  3. What do ye? Bore ye enough, in fine
  4. Of frost and famine with yon sot?
  5. What loss or gain have haply got
  6. Your tablets? so, whenas I ranged
  7. With Praetor, gains for loss were changed.
  8. "O Memmius! thou did'st long and late
  9. . . me supine slow and . . . "
  10. But (truly see I) in such case
  11. Diddled you were by wight as base
  12. Sans mercy. Noble friends go claim!
  13. Now god and goddess give you grame
  14. 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
  4. And all that farthest Britons held whilòme?