One Cinna-Gaius-bought the lot, But his or mine, it matters what?I use it freely as though bought, Yet thou, pert troubler, most absurd, None suffer'st speak an idle word."
A PARTING INSULT TO LESBIAFurius and Aurelius, Catullus' friends, Whether extremest Indian shore he brave,Strands where far-resounding billow rendsThe shattered wave,Or 'mid Hyrcanians dwell he, Arabs soft and wild,Sacis and Parthians of the arrow fain,Or where the Seven-mouth'd Nilus mud-defiled Tinges the Main,Or climb he lofty Alpine Crest and noteWorks monumental, Caesar's grandeur telling,Rhine Gallic, horrid Ocean and remoteBritons low-dwelling;All these (whatever shall the will designOf Heaven-homed Gods) Oh ye prepared to tempt; Announce your briefest to that damsel mine In words unkempt :—Live she and love she wenchers several,Embrace three hundred wi' the like requitals, None truly loving and withal of all