Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Tusk underlies its cloth empurpled by juice of the dye-shell.
  2. This be a figured cloth with forms of manhood primeval
  3. Showing by marvel-art the gifts and graces of heroes.
  4. Here upon Dia's strand wave-resonant, ever-regarding
  5. Theseus borne from sight outside by fleet of the fleetest,