Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Whither can wend I now? What hope lends help to the lost one?
  2. Idomenean mounts shall I scale? Ah, parted by whirlpools
  3. Widest, yon truculent main where yields it power of passage?
  4. Aid of my sire can I crave? Whom I willing abandoned,
  5. Treading in tracks of a youth bewrayed with blood of a brother!
  6. Can I console my soul with the helpful love of a helpmate
  7. Who flies me with pliant oars, flies overbounding the sea-depths?
  8. Nay, if this Coast I quit, this lone isle lends me no roof-tree,