Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Wot I not, yet so I do feeling a torture of pain.
  1. Quintia beautiful seems to the crowd; to me, fair, and tall,
  2. Straight; and merits as these readily thus I confess,
  3. But that she is beauteous all I deny, for nothing of lovesome,
  4. Never a grain of salt, shows in her person so large.
  5. Lesbia beautiful seems, and when all over she's fairest,
  6. Any Venus-gift stole she from every one.
  1. Never a woman could call herself so fondly beloved
  2. Truly as Lesbia mine has been beloved of myself.
  3. Never were Truth and Faith so firm in any one compact