Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. All woo her: thither too (the chief of slights !)
  2. All pitiful knaves and by-street wenchers fare,
  3. And thou, (than any worse), with hanging hair,
  4. In coney-breeding Celtiberia bred,
  5. Egnatius! bonnified by beard full-fed,
  6. And teeth with Spanish urine polishèd.
  1. Cornificius! 'Tis ill with thy Catullus,