Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- Nor shall the mother's soul for ill-matcht daughter a-grieving
- Lose by a parted couch all hopes of favourite grandsons.
- Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, 0 Spindles.
- Thus in the bygone day Peleus' fate foretelling
- Chaunted from breasts divine prophetic verse the Parcae.
- For that the pure chaste homes of heroes to visit in person
- Oft-tide the Gods, and themselves to display where mortals were gathered,
- Wont were the Heavenlies while none human piety spurned.
- Often the Deities' Sire, in fulgent temple a-dwelling,
- Whenas in festal days received he his annual worship,