Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Goddesses! bid that Will lead him, lead his, to destruction."

  2. E'en as she thus poured forth these words from anguish of bosom,
  3. And for this cruel deed, distracted, sued she for vengeance,
  4. Nodded the Ruler of Gods Celestial, matchless of All-might,
  5. When at the gest earth-plain and horrid spaces of ocean
  6. Trembled, and every sphere rockt stars and planets resplendent.
  7. Meanwhile Theseus himself, obscured in blindness of darkness
  8. As to his mind, dismiss'd from breast oblivious all things