Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Veránius best! Fabúllus mine!
  2. What do ye? Bore ye enough, in fine
  3. Of frost and famine with yon sot?
  4. What loss or gain have haply got
  5. Your tablets? so, whenas I ranged
  6. With Praetor, gains for loss were changed.
  7. "O Memmius! thou did'st long and late
  8. . . me supine slow and . . . "
  9. But (truly see I) in such case
  10. Diddled you were by wight as base
  11. Sans mercy. Noble friends go claim!
  12. Now god and goddess give you grame
  13. 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?
  5. (Thou bardache Romulus!) this wilt see and bear?
  6. Then art a lewdling, dicer, greedy-gut!
  7. He now superb with pride superfluous