Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Had she regard: on you, Theseus! all of her heart-strength,
  2. All of her sprite, her mind, forlorn, were evermore hanging.
  3. Ah, sad soul, by grief and grievance driven beside you,
  4. Sowed Erycina first those brambly cares in thy bosom,
  5. What while issuing fierce with will enstarkened, Theseus
  6. Forth from the bow-bent shore Piraean putting a-seawards
  7. Reacht the Gortynian roofs where dwelt the injurious Monarch.
  8. For 'twas told of yore how forced by pestilence cruel,
  9. Eke as a blood rite due for the Androgeonian murder,
  10. Many a chosen youth and the bloom of damsels unmarried
  11. Food for the Minotaur, Cecropia was wont to befurnish.