Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Where toss their ivy-circled heads with might the Maenades
  2. Where ply mid shrilly lullilooes the holiest mysteries,
  3. Where to fly here and there be wont the she-god's vaguing train,
  4. Thither behoves us lead the dance in quick-step hasty strain."
  5. Soon as had Atys (bastard-she) this lay to comrades sung