Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Gellius is lean: Why not? For him so easy a mother
  2. Lives, and a sister so boon, bonny and buxom to boot,
  3. Uncle so kindly good and all things full of his lady-
  4. Cousins, how can he cease leanest of lankies to be?
  5. Albeit, touch he naught save that whose touch is a scandal,
  6. Soon shall thou find wherefor he be as lean as thou like.
  1. Born be a Magus, got by Gellius out of his mother
  2. (Marriage nefand!) who shall Persian augury learn.
  3. Needs it a Magus begot of son upon mother who bare him,
  4. If that impious faith, Persian religion be fact,