Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Such were the mandates which stored at first in memory constant
  2. Faded from Theseus' mind like mists, compelled by the whirlwind,
  3. Fleet from aerial crests of mountains hoary with snow-drifts.
  4. But as the sire had sought the citadel's summit for outlook,
  5. Wasting his anxious eyes with tear-floods evermore flowing,
  6. Forthright e'en as he saw the sail-gear darkened with dye-stain,
  7. Headlong himself flung he from the sea-cliff's pinnacled summit
  8. Holding his Theseus lost by doom of pitiless Fortune.
  9. Thus as he came to the home funest, his roof-tree paternal,
  10. Theseus (vaunting the death), what dule to the maiden of Minos
  11. Dealt with unminding mind so dree'd he similar dolour.