Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. The left-hand enemy of the herds a-goading thus bespoke:
  2. "Up feral fell! up, hie with him, see rage his foot-steps urge,
  3. See that his fury smite him till he seek the forest verge,
  4. He who with over-freedom fain would fly mine empery.
  5. Go, slash thy flank with lashing tail and sense the strokes of thee,
  6. Make the whole mountain to thy roar sound and resound again,
  7. And fiercely toss thy brawny neck that bears the tawny mane!"