Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Nay bide at home, for us prepare
  2. Nine-fold continuous love-delights.
  3. But aught do thou to hurry things,
  4. For dinner-full I lie aback,
  5. And gown and tunic through I crack.
  1. OH, best of robbers who in Baths delight,
  2. Vibennius, sire and son, the Ingle hight,
  3. (For that the father's hand be fouler one