Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Spying soft Atys lingering near the marbled pave of sea
  2. He springs: the terror-madded wretch back to the wood doth flee,
  3. Where for the remnant of her days a bondmaid's life led she.
  4. Great Goddess, Goddess Cybele, Dindymus dame divine,
  5. Far from my house and home thy wrath and wrack, dread mistress mine:
  6. Goad others on with Fury's goad, others to Ire consign!
  1. Pine-trees gendered whilome upon soaring Peliac summit
  2. Swam (as the tale is told) through liquid surges of Neptune
  3. Far as the Phasis-flood and frontier-land Aeetean;
  4. Whenas the youths elect, of Argive vigour the oak-heart,
  5. Longing the Golden Fleece of the Colchis-region to harry,
  6. Dared in a poop swift-paced to span salt seas and their shallows,
  7. Sweeping the deep blue seas with sweeps a-carven of fir-wood.
  8. She, that governing Goddess of citadels crowning the cities,
  9. Builded herself their car fast-flitting with lightest of breezes,
  10. Weaving plants of the pine conjoined in curve of the kelson;
  11. Foremost of all to imbue rude Amphitrite with ship-lore.
  12. Soon as her beak had burst through wind-rackt spaces of ocean,
  13. While the oar-tortured wave with spumy whiteness was blanching,
  14. Surged from the deep abyss and hoar-capped billows the faces