Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Set in their battered gums favouring a muddy old box,
  2. Not to say aught of gape like wide-cleft gap of a she-mule
  3. Whenas in summer-heat wont peradventure to stale.
  4. Yet has he many a motte and holds himself to be handsome—
  5. Why wi' the baker's ass is he not bound to the mill?
  6. Him if a damsel kiss we fain must think she be ready
  7. With her fair lips . . . .
  1. Rightly of thee may be said, an of any, (thou stinkingest Victius!)