Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- For that of sin there's naught wherewith this sin can exceed he
- . . . . his head on himself.
- Gellius is lean: Why not? For him so easy a mother
- Lives, and a sister so boon, bonny and buxom to boot,
- Uncle so kindly good and all things full of his lady-
- Cousins, how can he cease leanest of lankies to be?