Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. The rustic half-washt shanks of Nerius
  2. And Libo's subtle silent fizzling-farts. ---
  3. I wish that leastwise these should breed disgust
  4. In thee and old Fuficius, rogue twice-cookt.
  5. Again at these mine innocent iamb-lines
  6. Wi' wrath be wrothest; unique Emperor!
  1. We pray, an' haply irk it not when prayed,
  2. Show us where shadowed hidest thou in shade!
  3. Thee throughout Campus Minor sought we all,
  4. Thee in the Circus, thee in each bookstall,