Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. He springs: the terror-madded wretch back to the wood doth flee,
  2. Where for the remnant of her days a bondmaid's life led she.
  3. Great Goddess, Goddess Cybele, Dindymus dame divine,
  4. Far from my house and home thy wrath and wrack, dread mistress mine:
  5. 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,