Carmina

Catullus

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

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