Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Cupid, should I return to her anon
  2. And cease to brandish iamb-lines accurst,
  3. The writ selected erst of bards the worst
  4. She to the limping Godhead would devote
  5. With slowly-burning wood of illest note.
  6. This was the vilest which my girl could find
  7. With vow facetious to the Gods assigned.
  8. Now, 0 Creation of the azure sea,
  9. Holy Idalium, Urian havenry
  10. Haunting, Ancona, Cnidos' reedy site,
  11. Amathus, Golgos, and the tavern hight
  12. Durrachium-thine Adrian abode—