Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. 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,