Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Here might somebody ask :—" How, Door, hast mastered such matter?
  2. Thou that canst never avail threshold of owner to quit,
  3. Neither canst listen to folk since here fast fixt to the side-posts
  4. Only one office thou hast, shutting or opening the house."
Door.
  1. Oft have I heard our dame in furtive murmurs o'er telling,
  2. When with her handmaids alone, these her flagitious deeds,
  3. Citing fore-cited names for that she never could fancy
  4. Ever a Door was endow'd either with earlet or tongue.
  5. Further she noted a wight whose name in public to mention
  6. Nill I, lest he upraise eyebrows of carroty hue;
  7. Long is the loon and large the law-suit brought they against him