Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. And cease to brandish iamb-lines accurst,
  2. The writ selected erst of bards the worst
  3. She to the limping Godhead would devote
  4. With slowly-burning wood of illest note.
  5. This was the vilest which my girl could find
  6. With vow facetious to the Gods assigned.