Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- And with his anus greedier is the Son)
- Why not to banishment and evil hours
- Haste ye, when all the parent's plundering powers
- Are public knowledge, nor canst gain a Cent
- Son! by the vending of thy pilèd vent.
- Diana's faith inbred we bear
- Youths whole of heart and maidens fair,
- Let boys no blemishes impair,
- And girls of Dian sing!
- O great Latonian progeny,
- Of greatest Jove descendancy,
- Whom mother bare 'neath olive-tree,
- Deep in the Delian dell;
- That of the mountains reign thou Queen