Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. And girls of Dian sing!
  2. O great Latonian progeny,
  3. Of greatest Jove descendancy,
  4. Whom mother bare 'neath olive-tree,
  5. Deep in the Delian dell;
  6. That of the mountains reign thou Queen
  7. And forest ranges ever green,
  8. And coppices by man unseen,
  9. And rivers resonant.
  10. Thou art Lucína, Juno hight
  11. By mothers lien in painful plight,
  12. Thou puissant Trivia and the Light