Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. So that the charming lad sleep wi' the charmer his lass.
  2. Gallus is foolish wight, nor self regards he as husband,
  3. When being uncle how nuncle to cuckold he show.
  1. Lesbius is beauty-man: why not? when Lesbia wills him
  2. Better, Catullus, than thee backed by the whole of thy clan.
  3. Yet may that beauty-man sell all his clan with Catullus,
  4. An of three noted names greeting salute he can gain.
  1. How shall I (Gellius!) tell what way lips rosy as thine are