Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Never, my woman oft says, with any of men will she mate be,
  2. Save wi' my own very self, ask her though Jupiter deign!
  3. Says she: but womanly words that are spoken to desireful lover
  4. Ought to be written on wind or upon water that runs.
  1. An of a goat-stink damned from armpits fusty one suffer,
  2. Or if a crippling gout worthily any one rack,