Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Bithynia now, and how it fared,
  2. And if some coin I made or spared.
  3. "There was no cause (I soothly said)
  4. "The Praetors or the Cohort made
  5. Thence to return with oilier head;
  6. The more when ruled by---
  7. Praetor, as pile the Cohort rating."
  8. Quoth they, "But certes as 'twas there
  9. The custom rose, some men to bear
  10. Litter thou boughtest ?" I to her
  11. To seem but richer, wealthier,
  12. Cry, "Nay, with me 'twas not so ill
  13. That, given the Province suffered, still
  14. Eight stiff-backed loons I could not buy.'