Carmina

Catullus

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

  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.