Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Well shall I wot boon Time sets you returning before me."

  2. Such were the mandates which stored at first in memory constant
  3. Faded from Theseus' mind like mists, compelled by the whirlwind,
  4. Fleet from aerial crests of mountains hoary with snow-drifts.
  5. But as the sire had sought the citadel's summit for outlook,
  6. Wasting his anxious eyes with tear-floods evermore flowing,
  7. Forthright e'en as he saw the sail-gear darkened with dye-stain,
  8. Headlong himself flung he from the sea-cliff's pinnacled summit