Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Thus while the virgin be whole, such while she's the dearling of kinsfolk;
  2. Yet no sooner is lost her bloom from body polluted,
  3. Neither to youths she is joy, nor a dearling she to the maidens.
  4. Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen here, O Hymenaeus!
Youths
  1. E'en as an unmated vine which born in field of the barest