Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Theseus of freest will for dear-loved Athens his body
  2. Offered a victim so that no more to Crete be deported
  3. Lives by Cecropia doomed to burials burying nowise;
  4. Then with a swifty ship and soft breathed breezes a-stirring,
  5. Sought he Minos the Haughty where homed in proudest of Mansions.
  6. Him as with yearning glance forthright espied the royal
  7. Maiden, whom pure chaste couch aspiring delicate odours