Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Which to that simple soul causes the fullest delight.
  2. Mule! naught sensest thou: did she forget us in silence,
  3. Whole she had been; but now what so she rails and she snarls,
  4. Not only dwells in her thought, but worse and even more risky,
  5. Wrathful she bides. Which means, she is afire and she fumes.
  1. Wontis Arrius say "Chommodious" whenas "commodious"
  2. Means he, and "Insidious "aspirate "Hinsidious,"
  3. What time flattering self he speaks with marvellous purity,
  4. Clamouring "Hinsidious" loudly as ever he can.
  5. Deem I thus did his dame and thus-wise Liber his uncle