Carmina

Catullus

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

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