Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Forth from the bow-bent shore Piraean putting a-seawards
  2. Reacht the Gortynian roofs where dwelt the injurious Monarch.
  3. For 'twas told of yore how forced by pestilence cruel,
  4. Eke as a blood rite due for the Androgeonian murder,
  5. Many a chosen youth and the bloom of damsels unmarried
  6. Food for the Minotaur, Cecropia was wont to befurnish.
  7. Seeing his narrow walls in such wise vexed with evils,