Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. For since the doings of the Díndymus-dame,
  2. By himself storied, she hath read, a flame
  3. Wasting her inmost marrow-core hath burned.
  4. I pardon thee, than Sapphic Muse more learn'd,
  5. Damsel : for truly sung in sweetest lays
  6. Was by Cecilius Magna Mater's praise.
  1. Volusius' Annals, paper scum-bewrayed!
  2. Fulfil that promise erst my damsel made;
  3. Who vowed to Holy Venus and her son,
  4. Cupid, should I return to her anon
  5. And cease to brandish iamb-lines accurst,