Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Furius! our Villa never Austral force
  2. B roke, neither set thereon Favonius' course,
  3. Nor savage Boreas, nor Epeliot's strain,
  4. But fifteen thousand crowns and hundreds twain
  5. Wreckt it, —Oh ruinous by-wind, breezy bane!
  1. Thou youngling drawer of Falernian old
  2. Crown me the goblets with a bitterer wine
  3. As was Postumia's law that rules the feast
  4. Than ebriate grape-stone more inebriate.
  5. But ye fare whither please ye (water-nymphs!)
  6. To wine pernicious, and to sober folk
  7. Migrate ye: mere Thyonian juice be here!
  1. Followers of Piso, empty band