Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Yet I ajudge . . . . cleaner and nicer to be;
  2. For while this one lacks teeth, that one has cubit-long tushes,
  3. Set in their battered gums favouring a muddy old box,
  4. Not to say aught of gape like wide-cleft gap of a she-mule
  5. Whenas in summer-heat wont peradventure to stale.
  6. Yet has he many a motte and holds himself to be handsome—
  7. Why wi' the baker's ass is he not bound to the mill?
  8. Him if a damsel kiss we fain must think she be ready
  9. With her fair lips . . . .