Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. That to thy lord hast abjured faithfulness owed of old?
Door.
  1. Never (so chance I to please Caeci1ius owning me now-a-days!)
  2. Is it my own default, how so they say it be mine;
  3. Nor can any declare aught sin by me was committed.
  4. Yet it is so declared (Quintus!) by fable of folk;
  5. Who, whenever they find things done no better than should be,
  6. Come to me outcrying all:—"Door, the default is thine own!"
Quintus.
  1. This be never enough for thee one-worded to utter,
  2. But in such way to deal, each and all sense it and see.
Door.
  1. What shall I do? None asks, while nobody troubles to know.
Quintus.
  1. Willing are we? unto us stay not thy saying to say.