Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Hence a grave frigid rheum and frequent cough
  2. Shook me till fled I to thy bosom, where
  3. Repose and nettle-broth healed all my ills.
  4. Wherefore recruited now best thanks I give
  5. To thee for nowise punishing my sins:
  6. Nor do I now object if noisome writs
  7. Of Sestius hear I, but that cold and cough
  8. And rheum may plague, not me, but Sestius' self