Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Propontis too and blustering Pontic bight.
  2. Where she (my Pinnace now) in times before,
  3. Was leafy woodling on Cytórean Chine
  4. For ever loquent lisping with her leaves.
  5. Pontic Amastris! Box-tree-clad Cytórus!
  6. Cognisant were ye, and you weet full well
  7. (So saith my Pinnace) how from earliest age
  8. Upon your highmost-spiring peak she stood,
  9. How in your waters first her sculls were dipt,
  10. And thence thro' many and many an important strait
  11. She bore her owner whether left or right,
  12. Where breezes bade her fare, or Jupiter deigned
  13. At once propitious strike the sail full square;
  14. Nor to the sea-shore gods was aught of vow
  15. By her deemed needful, when from Ocean's bourne
  16. Extreme she voyaged for this limpid lake.
  17. Yet were such things whilome: now she retired
  18. In quiet age devotes herself to thee
  19. (0 twin-born Castor) twain with Castor's twin.
  1. Love we (my Lesbia!) and live we our day,