Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. For love thou sued'st to thy lasting grief.
  1. That Ametina, worn-out whore,
  2. Me for a myriad oft would bore,
  3. That strumpet of th' ignoble nose,
  4. To leman, rakehell Formian chose.
  5. An ye would guard her (kinsmen folk)
  6. Your friends and leaches d'ye convoke:
  7. The girl's not sound-sens'd; ask ye naught
  8. Of her complaint: she's love-distraught.
  1. Come, Hendecasyllabics, many as may
  2. All hither, every one that of you be!