Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Your friends and leaches d'ye convoke:
  2. The girl's not sound-sens'd; ask ye naught
  3. Of her complaint: she's love-distraught.
  1. Come, Hendecasyllabics, many as may
  2. All hither, every one that of you be!
  3. That fulsome harlot makes me laughing-stock
  4. And she refuses at our prayer restore
  5. Our stolen Note-books, an such slights ye bear.
  6. Let us pursue her clamouring our demands.
  7. "Who's she?" ye question: yonder one ye sight
  8. Mincingly pacing mime-like, perfect pest,