Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Snatched she the timbrel's legier load with hands as snowdrops white,
  2. Thy timbrel, Mother Cybele, the firstings of thy rite,
  3. And as her tender finger-tips on bull-back hollow rang
  4. She rose a-grieving and her song to listening comrades sang.
  5. "Up Gallae, hie together, haste for Cybele's deep grove,