Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Nor do I care e'en to know an thou be white or be black.
  1. Mentula wooeth much: much wooeth he, be assurèd.
  2. That is, e'en as they say, the Pot gathers leeks for the pot.
  1. "Zmyrna" begun erstwhile nine harvests past by my Cinna
  2. Publisht appears when now nine of his winters be gone;
  3. Thousands fifty of lines meanwhile Hortensius in single
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  5. "Zmyrna" shall travel afar as the hollow breakers of Satrax,