Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- Who e'er could witness this (who could endure
- Except the lewdling, dicer, greedy-gut)
- That should Mamurra get what hairy Gaul
- And all that farthest Britons held whilòme?
- (Thou bardache Romulus!) this wilt see and bear?
- Then art a lewdling, dicer, greedy-gut!
- He now superb with pride superfluous
- Shall go perambulate the bedrooms all
- Like white-robed dovelet or Adonis-love.
- Romulus thou bardache! this wilt see and bear?
- Then art a lewdling, dicer, greedy-gut!
- Is't for such like name, sole Emperor thou!
- Thou soughtest extreme Occidental Isle?
- That this your . . . . Mentula
- Millions and Milliards might at will absorb?
- What is't but Liberality misplaced?
- What trifles wasted he, small heirlooms spent?
- First his paternal goods were clean dispersed;
- Second went Pontus' spoils and for the third,—
- Ebro-land,—weets it well gold-rolling Tage.