Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Thía's illustrious race speeded its voyage to end,
  2. Whenas the Medes brought forth new sea, and barbarous youth-hood
  3. Urged an Armada to swim traversing middle-Athos.
  4. What can be done by Hair when such things yield them to Iron?
  5. Jupiter! Grant Chalybon perish the whole of the race,
  6. Eke who in primal times ore seeking under the surface
  7. Showed th' example, and spalled iron however so hard.
  8. Shortly before I was shorn my sister tresses bewailèd