Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Eumenides! aye wont to bind with viperous hairlocks
  2. Foreheads,—Oh, deign outspeak fierce wrath from bosom outbreathing,
  3. Hither, Oh hither, speed, and lend you all ear to my grievance,
  4. Which now sad I (alas!) outpour from innermost vitals
  5. Maugre my will, sans help, blind, fired with furious madness.
  6. And, as indeed all spring from veriest core of my bosom,
  7. Suffer you not the cause of grief and woe to evanish;
  8. But with the Will wherewith could Theseus leave me in loneness,
  9. Goddesses! bid that Will lead him, lead his, to destruction."

  10. E'en as she thus poured forth these words from anguish of bosom,
  11. And for this cruel deed, distracted, sued she for vengeance,