Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Nor (impossible chance!) ever she prove herself chaste:
  2. Would I were only healed and shed this fulsome disorder.
  3. 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!)
  3. Hast thou cajoled me thus, and enfiring innermost vitals,
  4. Ravished the whole of our good own'd by wretchedest me?
  5. Ravished; (alas and alas!) of our life thou cruellest cruel