Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Never a grain of salt, shows in her person so large.
  2. Lesbia beautiful seems, and when all over she's fairest,
  3. 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
  4. As on the part of me kept I my love to thyself.
  5. Now is my mind to a pass, my Lesbia, brought by thy treason,
  1. What may he (Gellius!) do that ever for mother and sister
  2. Itches and wakes thro' the nights, working wi' tunic bedoffed?
  3. What may he do who nills his uncle ever be husband?
  4. Wottest thou how much he ventures of sacrilege-sin?