Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Yet how sad was the speech thou spakest, thy husband farewelling!
  2. (Jupiter!) Often thine eyes wiping with sorrowful hand!
  3. What manner God so great thus changed thee? Is it that lovers
  4. Never will tarry afar parted from person beloved?
  5. Then unto every God on behalf of thy helpmate, thy sweeting,
  6. Me thou gayest in vow, not without bloodshed of bulls,
  7. If he be granted return, and long while nowise delaying,
  8. Captive Asia he add unto Egyptian bounds.
  9. Now for such causes I, enrolled in host of the Heavens,
  10. By a new present, discharge promise thou madest of old: