Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- So this marvel o' mine sees naught, and nothing can hear he,
- What he himself, an he be or not be, wholly unknowing.
- Now would I willingly pitch such wight head first fro' thy bridge,
- Better a-sudden t'arouse that numskull's stolid old senses,
- Or in the sluggish mud his soul supine to deposit
- Even as she-mule casts iron shoe where quagmire is stiffest.