Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Fulfil that promise erst my damsel made;
  2. Who vowed to Holy Venus and her son,
  3. Cupid, should I return to her anon
  4. And cease to brandish iamb-lines accurst,
  5. The writ selected erst of bards the worst
  6. She to the limping Godhead would devote
  7. With slowly-burning wood of illest note.
  8. This was the vilest which my girl could find
  9. With vow facetious to the Gods assigned.
  10. Now, 0 Creation of the azure sea,
  11. Holy Idalium, Urian havenry