Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Him, that husband, whose love in so mighty a whirlpool of passion
  2. Whelmed thee absorbed and plunged deep in its gulfy abyss,
  3. E'en as the Grecians tell hard by Phenéus of Cylléne
  4. Drained was the marish and dried, forming the fattest of soils,