Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Nor let spider on high that weaves her delicate webbing
  2. Practise such labours o'er Allius' obsolete name.
  3. For that ye weet right well what care Amathúsia two-faced
  4. Gave me, and how she dasht every hope to the ground,
  5. Whenas I burnt so hot as burn Trinacria's rocks or
  6. Mallia stream that feeds Œtéan Thermopylae;
  7. Nor did these saddened eyes to be dimmed by assiduous weeping
  8. Cease, and my cheeks with showers ever in sadness be wet.
  9. E'en as from aëry heights of mountain springeth a springlet
  10. Limpidest leaping forth from rocking felted with moss,
  11. Then having headlong rolled the prone-laid valley downpouring,