Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Haste ye, when all the parent's plundering powers
  2. Are public knowledge, nor canst gain a Cent
  3. Son! by the vending of thy pilèd vent.
  1. Diana's faith inbred we bear
  2. Youths whole of heart and maidens fair,
  3. Let boys no blemishes impair,
  4. And girls of Dian sing!
  5. O great Latonian progeny,
  6. Of greatest Jove descendancy,
  7. Whom mother bare 'neath olive-tree,
  8. Deep in the Delian dell;