Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Gladden your souls, ye mistresses, with sense of error bann'd.
  2. Drive from your spirits dull delay, together follow ye
  3. To hold of Phrygian goddess, home of Phrygian Cybebe,
  4. Where loud the cymbal's voice resounds with timbrel-echoes blending,
  5. And where the Phrygian piper drones grave bass from reed a-bending,