Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Now will I crave no more she love me e'en as I love her,
  2. Nor (impossible chance!) ever she prove herself chaste:
  3. Would I were only healed and shed this fulsome disorder.
  4. Oh Gods, grant me this boon unto my piety due!
  1. Rufus, trusted as friend by me, so fruitlessly, vainly,
  2. (Vainly? nay to my bane and at a ruinous price!)