Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. What can be done by Hair when such things yield them to Iron?
  2. Jupiter! Grant Chalybon perish the whole of the race,
  3. Eke who in primal times ore seeking under the surface
  4. Showed th' example, and spalled iron however so hard.
  5. Shortly before I was shorn my sister tresses bewailèd
  6. Lot of me, e'en as the sole brother to Memnon the Black,
  7. Winnowing upper air wi' feathers flashing and quiv'ring,
  8. Chloris' wing-borne steed, came before Arsinoë,
  9. Whence upraising myself he flies through aëry shadows,
  10. And in chaste Venus' breast drops he the present he bears.
  11. Eke Zephyritis had sent, for the purpose trusted, her bondsman,