Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Acmé to one Septumius full of faith
  2. Her love and love-liesse surrendereth.
  3. Who e'er saw mortals happier than these two?
  4. Who e'er a better omened Venus knew?
  1. Now Spring his cooly mildness brings us back,
  2. Now th' equinoctial heaven's rage and wrack
  3. Hushes at hest of Zephyr's bonny breeze.
  4. Far left (Catullus!) be the Phrygian leas
  5. And summery Nicaea's fertile downs:
  6. Fly we to Asia's fame-illumined towns.
  7. Now lust my fluttering thoughts for wayfare long,
  8. Now my glad eager feet grow steady, strong.
  9. O fare ye well, my comrades, pleasant throng,
  10. Ye who together far from homesteads flying,
  11. By many various ways come homewards hieing.
  1. Porcius and Socration, pair sinister
  2. Of Piso, scabs and starvelings of the world,
  3. You to Fabúllus and my Verianiólus,
  4. Hath dared yon snipt Priapus to prefer?
  5. Upon rich banquets sumptuously spread