Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. B roke, neither set thereon Favonius' course,
  2. Nor savage Boreas, nor Epeliot's strain,
  3. But fifteen thousand crowns and hundreds twain
  4. 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.