Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. A-seeking sumptuous banquetings, bestowed.
  2. For I requesting to be Sestius' guest
  3. Read against claimant Antius a speech,
  4. Full-filled with poisonous pestilential trash.
  5. Hence a grave frigid rheum and frequent cough
  6. Shook me till fled I to thy bosom, where
  7. Repose and nettle-broth healed all my ills.
  8. Wherefore recruited now best thanks I give
  9. To thee for nowise punishing my sins:
  10. Nor do I now object if noisome writs
  11. Of Sestius hear I, but that cold and cough
  12. And rheum may plague, not me, but Sestius' self