Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. That same Cónon espied among lights Celestial shining
  2. Me, Berenice's Hair, which, from her glorious head,
  3. Fulgent in brightness afar, to many a host of the Godheads
  4. Stretching her soft smooth arms she vowed to devoutly bestow,
  5. What time strengthened by joy of new-made wedlock the monarch
  6. Bounds of Assyrian land hurried to plunder and pill;
  7. Bearing of nightly strife new signs and traces delicious,
  8. Won in the war he waged virginal trophies to win.
  9. Loathsome is Venus to all new-paired? Else why be the parents'
  10. Pleasure frustrated aye by the false flow of tears