Carmina

Catullus

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

  • Now shall hair-curling chattel scrape
  • Thy cheeks: poor wretch, ah! poor and vile:—
  • He-Concubine, throw nuts.
  • 'Tis said from smooth-faced ingle train
  • (Anointed bridegroom!) hardly fain
  • Hast e'er refrained; now do refrain!
  • O Hymen Hymenaeus io,