Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Now th' equinoctial heaven's rage and wrack
  2. Hushes at hest of Zephyr's bonny breeze.
  3. Far left (Catullus!) be the Phrygian leas
  4. And summery Nicaea's fertile downs:
  5. Fly we to Asia's fame-illumined towns.
  6. Now lust my fluttering thoughts for wayfare long,
  7. Now my glad eager feet grow steady, strong.
  8. O fare ye well, my comrades, pleasant throng,
  9. Ye who together far from homesteads flying,
  10. 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
  6. Still gorge you daily while my comrades must
  7. Go seek invitals where the three roads fork?
  1. Those honied eyes of thine (Juventius!)
  2. If any suffer me sans stint to buss,
  3. I'd kiss of kisses hundred thousands three,