Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- The more when ruled by---
- Praetor, as pile the Cohort rating."
- Quoth they, "But certes as 'twas there
- The custom rose, some men to bear
- Litter thou boughtest ?" I to her
- To seem but richer, wealthier,
- Cry, "Nay, with me 'twas not so ill
- That, given the Province suffered, still
- Eight stiff-backed loons I could not buy.'
- (Withal none here nor there owned I
- Who broken leg of Couch outworn