Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- Led me my Varus to his flame,
- As I from Forum idling came.
- Forthright some whorelet judged I it
- Nor lacking looks nor wanting wit,
- When hied we thither, mid us three
- Fell various talk, as how might be
- Bithynia now, and how it fared,
- And if some coin I made or spared.
- "There was no cause (I soothly said)
- "The Praetors or the Cohort made
- Thence to return with oilier head;