Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Transpadan also, that mine own I touch,
  2. Or any washing teeth to shine o'er much,
  3. Yet thy incessant grin I would not see,
  4. For naught than laughter silly sillier be.
  5. Thou Celtiber art, in Celtiberia born,
  6. Where man who's urined therewith loves a-morn
  7. His teeth and ruddy gums to scour and score;
  8. So the more polisht are your teeth, the more
  9. Argue they sipping stale in ampler store.
  1. What thought of folly Rávidus (poor churl!)
  2. Upon my iambs thus would headlong hurl?