Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. I full-grown man, I blooming youth, I stripling, I a boy,
  2. I of Gymnasium erst the bloom, I too of oil the pride:
  3. Warm was my threshold, ever stood my gateways opening wide,
  4. My house was ever garlanded and hung with flowery freight,
  5. And couch to quit with rising sun, has ever been my fate:
  6. Now must I Cybele's she-slave, priestess of gods, be hight?
  7. I Maenad I, mere bit of self, I neutral barren wight?