Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Who to the stranger son have yielded their dues with a dower!
  2. Hymen O Hymenaeus: Hymen here, O Hymenaeus!
  1. O'er high deep seas in speedy ship his voyage Atys sped
  2. Until he trod the Phrygian grove with hurried eager tread
  3. And as the gloomy tree-shorn stead, the she-god's home, he sought
  4. There sorely stung with fiery ire and madman's vaguing thought,
  5. Share he with sharpened flint the freight wherewith his form was fraught.
  6. Then as the she-he sensed limbs were void of manly strain