Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Lives by Cecropia doomed to burials burying nowise;
  2. Then with a swifty ship and soft breathed breezes a-stirring,
  3. Sought he Minos the Haughty where homed in proudest of Mansions.
  4. Him as with yearning glance forthright espied the royal
  5. Maiden, whom pure chaste couch aspiring delicate odours
  6. Cherisht, in soft embrace of a mother comforted all-whiles,
  7. (E'en as the myrtles begot by the flowing floods of Eurotas,
  8. Or as the tincts distinct brought forth by breath of the springtide)
  9. Never the burning lights of her eyes from gazing upon him
  10. Turned she, before fierce flame in all her body conceived she
  11. Down in its deepest depths and burning within her marrow.