Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Lot of me, e'en as the sole brother to Memnon the Black,
  2. Winnowing upper air wi' feathers flashing and quiv'ring,
  3. Chloris' wing-borne steed, came before Arsinoë,
  4. Whence upraising myself he flies through aëry shadows,
  5. And in chaste Venus' breast drops he the present he bears.
  6. Eke Zephyritis had sent, for the purpose trusted, her bondsman,
  7. Settler of Grecian strain on the Canopian strand.
  8. So willed various Gods, lest sole 'mid lights of the Heavens