Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Tends her never a hind nor tends her ever a herdsman:
  2. Yet if haply conjoined the same with elm as a husband,
  3. Tends her many a hind and tends her many a herdsman:
  4. Thus is the maid when whole, uncultured waxes she aged;
  5. But whenas union meet she wins her at ripest of seasons,
  6. More to her spouse she is dear and less she's irk to her parents.
  7. Hymen O Hymenaeus, Hymen here, O Hymenaeus!