Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. That hand sinistral in thy wit and wine
  2. Filching the napkins of more heedless hosts.
  3. Dost find this funny? Fool it passeth thee
  4. How 'tis a sordid deed, a sorry jest.
  5. Dost misbelieve me? Trust to Pollio,
  6. Thy brother, ready to compound such thefts
  7. E'en at a talent's cost; for he's a youth
  8. In speech past master and in fair pleasantries.
  9. Of hendecasyllabics hundreds three
  10. Therefore expect thou, or return forthright
  11. Linens whose loss affects me not for worth
  12. But as mementoes of a comrade mine.
  13. For napkins Saetaban from Ebro-land
  14. Fabúllus ent me a free giftie given
  15. Also Veránius: these perforce I love
  16. E'en as my Veraniólus and Fabúllus.
  1. Thou'lt sup right well with me, Fabúllus mine,
  2. In days few-numbered an the Gods design,
  3. An great and goodly meal thou bring wi' thee
  4. Nowise forgetting damsel bright o' blee,