Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. What is't, Catullus? Why delay to out die?
  2. That Wen hight Nonius sits in curule chair,
  3. For Consulship Vatinius false doth swear;
  4. What is't, Catullus? Why delay to out die?
  1. I laughed at one 'mid Forum-crowd unknown
  2. Who, when Vatinius' crimes in wondrous way
  3. Had by my Calvus been explained, exposed,
  4. His hand upraising high admiring cried
  5. "Great Gods! the loquent little Doodle-diddle!"
  1. The head of Otho, puniest of pates---
  2. The rustic half-washt shanks of Nerius
  3. And Libo's subtle silent fizzling-farts. ---
  4. I wish that leastwise these should breed disgust
  5. In thee and old Fuficius, rogue twice-cookt.
  6. Again at these mine innocent iamb-lines