Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Cognisant were ye, and you weet full well
  2. (So saith my Pinnace) how from earliest age
  3. Upon your highmost-spiring peak she stood,
  4. How in your waters first her sculls were dipt,
  5. And thence thro' many and many an important strait
  6. She bore her owner whether left or right,
  7. Where breezes bade her fare, or Jupiter deigned