Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- Chiron came to the front with woodland presents surcharged:
- Whatso of blooms and flowers bring forth Thessalian uplands
- Mighty with mountain crests, whate'er of riverine lea flowers
- Reareth Favonius' air, bud-breeding, tepidly breathing,
- All in his hands brought he, unseparate in woven garlands,
- Whereat laughed the house as soothed by pleasure of perfume.
- Presently Péneus appears, deserting verdurous Tempe—
- Tempe girt by her belts of greenwood ever impending,
- Left for the Mamonides with frequent dances to worship—
- Nor is he empty of hand, for bears he tallest of beeches
- Deracinate, and bays with straight boles lofty and stately,
- Not without nodding plane-tree nor less the flexible sister
- Fire-slain Phaëton left, and not without cypresses airy.
- These in a line wide-broke set he, the Mansion surrounding,
- So by the soft leaves screened, the porch might flourish in verdure.
- Follows hard on his track with active spirit Prometheus,
- Bearing extenuate sign of penalties suffer'd in by-gones.
- Paid erewhiles what time fast-bound as to every member,
- Hung he in carkanet slung from the Scythian rocktor.
- Last did the Father of Gods with his sacred spouse and his offspring,