Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Of frost and famine with yon sot?
  2. What loss or gain have haply got
  3. Your tablets? so, whenas I ranged
  4. With Praetor, gains for loss were changed.
  5. "O Memmius! thou did'st long and late
  6. . . me supine slow and . . . "
  7. But (truly see I) in such case
  8. Diddled you were by wight as base
  9. Sans mercy. Noble friends go claim!
  10. Now god and goddess give you grame
  11. Disgrace of Romulus! Remus' shame!
  1. Who e'er could witness this (who could endure