Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Sad-voiced in pitifullest lay his native land bespake.
  2. "Country of me, Creatress mine, born to thee and bred,
  3. By hapless me abandoned as by thrall from lordling fled,
  4. When me to Ida's groves and glades these vaguing footsteps bore
  5. To tarry 'mid the snows and where lurk beasts in antres frore
  6. And seek the deeply hidden lairs where furious ferals meet!
  7. Where, Country! whither placed must I now hold thy site and seat?