Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. All no good: for th' outgoing, income immensely exceeds.
  2. Therefore his grounds be rich own I, while he's but a pauper.
  3. Laud we thy land while thou lackest joyance thereof.
  1. Mentula! masterest thou some thirty acres of grassland
  2. Full told, forty of field soil; others are sized as the sea.
  3. Why may he not surpass in his riches any a Crœsus