Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Fell various talk, as how might be
  2. Bithynia now, and how it fared,
  3. And if some coin I made or spared.
  4. "There was no cause (I soothly said)
  5. "The Praetors or the Cohort made
  6. Thence to return with oilier head;
  7. The more when ruled by---
  8. Praetor, as pile the Cohort rating."
  9. Quoth they, "But certes as 'twas there
  10. The custom rose, some men to bear
  11. Litter thou boughtest ?" I to her
  12. To seem but richer, wealthier,
  13. Cry, "Nay, with me 'twas not so ill
  14. That, given the Province suffered, still
  15. Eight stiff-backed loons I could not buy.'
  16. (Withal none here nor there owned I
  17. Who broken leg of Couch outworn
  18. On nape of neck had ever borne!)