Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Whenas a winter had gone, nor other winter had come,
  2. Ere in the long dark nights her greeding love was so sated
  3. That she had power to live maugrè a marriage broke off,
  4. Which, as the Parcae knew, too soon was fated to happen
  5. Should he a soldier sail bound for those llian walls.
  6. For that by Helena's rape, the Champion-leaders of Argives
  7. Unto herself to incite Troy had already begun,
  8. Troy (ah, curst be the name) common tomb of Asia and Europe,