Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Which at the first outstood from yarn-hanks evenly fine-drawn.
  2. Still at their feet in front soft fleece-flecks white as the snow-flake
  3. Lay in the trusty guard of wickers woven in withies.
  4. Always a-carding the wool, with clear-toned voices resounding
  5. Told they such lots as these in song divinely directed,
  6. Chaunts which none after-time shall 'stablish falsehood-convicted.
  1. O who by virtues great all highmost honours enhancest,
  2. Guard of Emáthia-land, most famous made by thine offspring,