Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Was but a fraud: her mate never a touch of her had,
  2. ---
  3. But that a father durst dishonour the bed of his first-born,
  4. Folk all swear, and the house hapless with incest bewray;