Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. O of Juventian youths the flowret fair
  2. Not of these only, but of all that were
  3. Or shall be, coming in the coming years,
  4. Better waste Midas' wealth (to me appears)
  5. On him that owns nor slave nor money-chest
  6. Than thou shouldst suffer by his love possest.
  7. "What! is he vile or not fair?" "Yes!" I attest,
  8. "Yet owns this man so comely neither slaves nor chest
  9. My words disdain thou or accept at best
  10. Yet neither slave he owns nor money-chest."