Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Who, whenever they find things done no better than should be,
  2. Come to me outcrying all:—"Door, the default is thine own!"
Quintus.
  1. This be never enough for thee one-worded to utter,
  2. But in such way to deal, each and all sense it and see.
Door.
  1. What shall I do? None asks, while nobody troubles to know.
Quintus.
  1. Willing are we? unto us stay not thy saying to say.
Door.
  1. First let me note that the maid to us committed (assert they)
  2. Was but a fraud: her mate never a touch of her had,
  3. ---
  4. But that a father durst dishonour the bed of his first-born,