Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- Then Thetis' Sire himself her yoke with Peleus sanctioned.
- Oh, in those happier days now fondly yearned-for, you heroes
- Born; (all hail!) of the gods begotten, and excellent issue
- Bred by your mothers, all hail! and placid deal me your favour.
- Oft with the sound of me, in strains and spells I'll invoke you;
- You too by wedding-torch so happily, highly augmented,
- Peleus, Thessaly's ward, in whose favor Jupiter himself,
- The Father of the gods, resigned his passions.
- You Thetis, fairest of maids Nereian, vouchsafed to marry?
- You did Tethys empower to woo and wed with her grandchild;
- Nor less Oceanus, with water compassing th' Earth-globe?
- But when ended the term, and wisht-for light of the day-tide
- Uprose, flocks to the house in concourse mighty, convened,
- Thessaly all, with glad assembly the Palace fulfilling:
- Presents afore they bring, and joy in faces declare they.
- Cieros abides a desert: they quit Phthiotican Tempe,
- Homesteads of Crannon-town, eke bulwarkt walls Larissa;
- Meeting at Pharsalus, and roof Pharsalian seeking.
- None will the fields now till; soft wax all necks the oxen,
- Never the humble vine is purged by curve of the rake-tooth,