Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. So quoth an angered Cybele, and yoke with hand untied:
  2. The feral rose in fiery wrath and self-inciting hied,
  3. A-charging, roaring through the brake with breaking paws he tore.
  4. But when he reached the humid sands where surges cream the shore,
  5. Spying soft Atys lingering near the marbled pave of sea
  6. He springs: the terror-madded wretch back to the wood doth flee,
  7. Where for the remnant of her days a bondmaid's life led she.