Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Thy timbrel, Mother Cybele, the firstings of thy rite,
  2. And as her tender finger-tips on bull-back hollow rang
  3. She rose a-grieving and her song to listening comrades sang.
  4. "Up Gallae, hie together, haste for Cybele's deep grove,
  5. Hie to the Dindymnean dame, ye flocks that love to rove;
  6. The which affecting stranger steads as bound in exile's brunt
  7. My sect pursuing led by me have nerved you to confront
  8. The raging surge of salty sea and ocean's tyrant hand
  9. As your hate of Venus' hest your manly forms unmann'd,
  10. Gladden your souls, ye mistresses, with sense of error bann'd.
  11. Drive from your spirits dull delay, together follow ye