Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. (Withal none here nor there owned I
  2. Who broken leg of Couch outworn
  3. On nape of neck had ever borne!)
  4. Then she, as pathic piece became,
  5. "Prithee Catullus mine, those same
  6. Lend me, Serapis-wards I'd hie." ---
  7. "Easy, on no-wise, no," quoth I,
  8. "Whate'er was mine, I lately said
  9. Is some mistake, my camarade
  10. One Cinna-Gaius-bought the lot,
  11. But his or mine, it matters what?
  12. I use it freely as though bought,
  13. Yet thou, pert troubler, most absurd,
  14. None suffer'st speak an idle word."