Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- So that my taste be turned and kisses ambrosial erstwhile
- Even than hellebore-juice bitterest bitterer grow.
- Seeing such pangs as these prepared for unfortunate lover,
- After this never again kiss will I venture to snatch.
- Caelius Aufilénus and Quintius Aufiléna,
- Love to the death, both swains bloom of the youth Veronese,