Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- Thou that canst never avail threshold of owner to quit,
- Neither canst listen to folk since here fast fixt to the side-posts
- Only one office thou hast, shutting or opening the house."
- Oft have I heard our dame in furtive murmurs o'er telling,
- When with her handmaids alone, these her flagitious deeds,