Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Nor can I (Goddesses!) hide in what things Allius sent me
  2. Aid, forbear to declare what was the aidance he deigned:
  3. Neither shall fugitive Time from centuries ever oblivious
  4. Veil in the blinds of night friendship he lavisht on me.
  5. But will I say unto you what you shall say to the many
  6. Thousands in turn, and make paper, old crone, to proclaim
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  8. And in his death become noted the more and the more,
  9. Nor let spider on high that weaves her delicate webbing
  10. Practise such labours o'er Allius' obsolete name.