Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- 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,
- Citing fore-cited names for that she never could fancy
- Ever a Door was endow'd either with earlet or tongue.
- Further she noted a wight whose name in public to mention
- Nill I, lest he upraise eyebrows of carroty hue;