Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Caelius! That Lesbia of ours, that Lesbia,
  2. That only Lesbia by Catullus loved,
  3. Than self, far fondlier, than all his friends,
  4. She now Where four roads fork, and wind the wynds
  5. Husks the high-minded scions Remus-sprung.
  1. Not if I feigned me that guard of Crete,
  2. Not if with Pegasèan wing I sped,
  3. >Or Ladas I or Perseus plumiped,
  4. Or Rhesus borne in swifty car snow-white:
  5. Add the twain foot-bewing'd and fast of flight,