Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. What shall the foeman deal more cruel to city becaptured?
  2. Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen here, O Hymenaeus!
Youths
  1. Hesperus! say what flame more gladsome in Heavens be shining?
  2. Thou whose light makes sure long-pledged connubial promise
  3. Plighted erewhile by men and erstwhile plighted by parents.