Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. "Lo, 'twixt these rosy paps he haply rests!"
  2. But now to find thee were Herculean feat.
  3. Not if I feigned me that guard of Crete,
  4. Not if with Pegasèan wing I sped,
  5. Or Ladas I or Perseus plumiped,
  6. Or Rhesus borne in swifty car snow-white:
  7. Add the twain foot-bewing'd and fast of flight,