Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. And, as indeed all spring from veriest core of my bosom,
  2. Suffer you not the cause of grief and woe to evanish;
  3. But with the Will wherewith could Theseus leave me in loneness,
  4. Goddesses! bid that Will lead him, lead his, to destruction."

  5. E'en as she thus poured forth these words from anguish of bosom,
  6. And for this cruel deed, distracted, sued she for vengeance,
  7. Nodded the Ruler of Gods Celestial, matchless of All-might,
  8. When at the gest earth-plain and horrid spaces of ocean