Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Neither canst listen to folk since here fast fixt to the side-posts
  2. 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;