Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. You to Fabúllus and my Verianiólus,
  2. Hath dared yon snipt Priapus to prefer?
  3. Upon rich banquets sumptuously spread
  4. Still gorge you daily while my comrades must
  5. 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,
  4. Nor ever deem I'd reach satiety,
  5. Not albe denser than dried wheat-ears show
  6. The kissing harvests our embraces grow.
  1. Most eloquent 'mid race of Romulus>
  2. That is or ever was (Marc Tullius!)
  3. Or in the coming years the light shall see,
  4. His thanks, the warmest, offers unto thee
  5. Catullus, poet sorriest that be,
  6. And by such measure poet sorriest,
  7. As thou of pleaders art the bestest best.
  1. Idly (Licinius!) we our yesterday,
  2. Played with my tablets much as pleased us play,