Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Egnatius for that owns he teeth snow-white,
  2. Grins ever, everywhere. When placed a wight
  3. In dock, when pleader would draw tears, the while
  4. He grins. When pious son at funeral pile
  6. Mourns, or lone mother sobs for sole lost son,
  7. He grins. Whate'er, whene'er, howe'er is done,
  8. Of deed he grins. Such be his malady,
  9. Nor kind, nor courteous-so beseemeth me—