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.
  7. Now, 0 Creation of the azure sea,
  8. Holy Idalium, Urian havenry
  9. Haunting, Ancona, Cnidos' reedy site,
  10. Amathus, Golgos, and the tavern hight
  11. Durrachium-thine Adrian abode—
  12. The vow accepting, recognize the vowed
  13. As not unworthy and unhandsome naught.