Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. I spend my life-tide couch't beneath high-towering Phrygian peaks?
  2. I dwell on Ida's verdant slopes mottled with snowy streaks,
  3. Where homes the forest-haunting doe, where roams the wildling boar?
  4. Now, now I rue my deed foredone, now, now it irks me sore!"
  5. Whenas from out those roseate lips these accents rapid flew,
  6. Bore them to ears divine consigned a Nuncio true and new;
  7. Then Cybele her lions twain disjoining from their yoke