Carmina

Catullus

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

(Manlius!) so with easy guess

All know him where his sire they know,

And still his face and form express

His mother's honest love.

Approve shall fair approof his birth

From mother's seed-stock generous,

As rarest fame of mother's worth