Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. 'Tis that rival o' thine who lief in loves of you meddles,
  2. And, by a wondrous fate, gains him the twain of such ills.
  3. For that, oft as he . . . , so oft that penance be two-fold;
  4. Stifles her stench of goat, he too is kilt by his gout.
  1. Wont thou to vaunt whilòme of, knowing only Catullus
  2. (Lesbia!) nor to prefer Jupiter's self to myself.