Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. For never giving and oft taking is deed illy done.
  2. Either as honest to grant, or modest as never to promise,
  3. Aufiléna! were fair, but at the gifties to clutch
  4. Fraudfully, viler seems than greed of greediest harlot
  5. Who with her every limb maketh a whore of herself.
  1. Aufiléna! to live content with only one husband,