Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. O Farm our own, Sabine or Tiburtine,
  2. (For style thee "Tiburs" Who have not at heart
  3. To hurt Catullus, whereas all that have
  4. Wage any Wager thou be Sabine classed)
  5. But whether Sabine or of Tiburs truer
  6. To thy suburban Cottage fared I fain
  7. And fro' my bronchials drave that cursèd cough
  8. Which not unmerited on me my maw,
  9. A-seeking sumptuous banquetings, bestowed.
  10. For I requesting to be Sestius' guest
  11. Read against claimant Antius a speech,
  12. Full-filled with poisonous pestilential trash.
  13. Hence a grave frigid rheum and frequent cough
  14. Shook me till fled I to thy bosom, where
  15. Repose and nettle-broth healed all my ills.
  16. Wherefore recruited now best thanks I give
  17. To thee for nowise punishing my sins:
  18. Nor do I now object if noisome writs
  19. Of Sestius hear I, but that cold and cough
  20. And rheum may plague, not me, but Sestius' self