Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. And fiercely toss thy brawny neck that bears the tawny mane!"
  2. So quoth an angered Cybele, and yoke with hand untied:
  3. The feral rose in fiery wrath and self-inciting hied,
  4. A-charging, roaring through the brake with breaking paws he tore.
  5. But when he reached the humid sands where surges cream the shore,