Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Great Goddess, Goddess Cybele, Dindymus dame divine,
  2. Far from my house and home thy wrath and wrack, dread mistress mine:
  3. 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,