Carmina

Catullus

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

  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
  4. Who in his one domain owns such abundance of good,
  5. Grasslands, arable fields, vast woods and forest and marish
  6. Yonder to Boreal-bounds trenching on Ocean tide?
  7. Great are indeed all these, but thou by far be the greatest,
  8. Never a man, but a great Mentula of menacing might.