Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Where homes the forest-haunting doe, where roams the wildling boar?
  2. Now, now I rue my deed foredone, now, now it irks me sore!"
  3. Whenas from out those roseate lips these accents rapid flew,
  4. Bore them to ears divine consigned a Nuncio true and new;
  5. Then Cybele her lions twain disjoining from their yoke
  6. The left-hand enemy of the herds a-goading thus bespoke:
  7. "Up feral fell! up, hie with him, see rage his foot-steps urge,
  8. See that his fury smite him till he seek the forest verge,
  9. He who with over-freedom fain would fly mine empery.