Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. This was the vilest which my girl could find
  2. With vow facetious to the Gods assigned.
  3. Now, 0 Creation of the azure sea,
  4. Holy Idalium, Urian havenry
  5. Haunting, Ancona, Cnidos' reedy site,
  6. Amathus, Golgos, and the tavern hight
  7. Durrachium-thine Adrian abode—
  8. The vow accepting, recognize the vowed
  9. As not unworthy and unhandsome naught.
  10. But do ye meanwhile to the fire be brought,
  11. That teem with boorish jest of sorry blade,
  12. Volusius' Annals, paper scum-bewrayed.
  1. Salacious Tavern and ye taverner-host,
  2. From Pileate Brothers the ninth pile-post,
  3. D'ye claim, you only of the, mentule boast,
  4. D'ye claim alone what damsels be the best
  5. To swive: as he-goats holding all the rest?
  6. Is't when like boobies sit ye incontinent here,
  7. One or two hundred, deem ye that I fear
  8. Two hundred . . . . at one brunt?