Carmina

Catullus

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

  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,
  6. And of the cursive' winds require the blow:
  7. All these (Camérius!) couldst on me bestow.
  8. Tho' were I wearied to each marrow bone
  9. And by many o' languors clean forgone
  10. Yet I to seek thee (friend!) would still assay.
  1. Rufa the Bolognese drains Rufule dry,
  2. (Wife to Menenius) she 'mid tombs you'll spy,
  3. The same a-snatching supper from the pyre
  4. Following the bread-loaves rolling forth the fire
  5. Till frapped by half-shaved body-burner's ire.
  1. Bare thee some lioness wild in Lybian wold?
  2. Or Scylla barking from low'st inguinal fold?
  3. With so black spirit, of so dure a mould,
  4. E'en voice of suppliant must thou disregard
  5. In latest circumstance ah, heart o'er hard?