Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. What time strengthened by joy of new-made wedlock the monarch
  2. Bounds of Assyrian land hurried to plunder and pill;
  3. Bearing of nightly strife new signs and traces delicious,
  4. Won in the war he waged virginal trophies to win.
  5. Loathsome is Venus to all new-paired? Else why be the parents'