Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Rather than fail your need (O false!) at hour the supremest.
  2. Therefore my limbs are doomed to be torn of birds, and of ferals
  3. Prey, nor shall upheapt Earth afford a grave to my body.
  4. Say me, what lioness bare you 'neath lone rock of the desert?
  5. What sea spued you conceived from out the spume of his surges!
  6. What manner Syrt, what ravening Scylla, what vasty Charybdis?
  7. you who for sweet life saved such meeds are lief of returning!