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,
  8. Theseus of freest will for dear-loved Athens his body
  9. Offered a victim so that no more to Crete be deported
  10. Lives by Cecropia doomed to burials burying nowise;
  11. Then with a swifty ship and soft breathed breezes a-stirring,