Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- Than thou shouldst suffer by his love possest.
- "What! is he vile or not fair?" "Yes!" I attest,
- "Yet owns this man so comely neither slaves nor chest
- My words disdain thou or accept at best
- Yet neither slave he owns nor money-chest."
- Thou bardache Thallus! more than Coney's robe
- Soft, or goose-marrow or ear's lowmost lobe,
- Or Age's languid yard and cobweb'd part,
- Same Thallus greedier than the gale thou art,
- When the Kite-goddess shows thee Gulls agape,
- Return my muffler thou hast dared to rape,
- Saetaban napkins, tablets of Thynos, all
- Which (Fool!) ancestral heirlooms thou didst call.
- These now unglueing from thy claws restore,
- Lest thy soft hands, and floss-like flanklets score