Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. Looked upon hundreds of bulls felled prone on pavement before him.
  2. Full oft Liber who roamed from topmost peak of Parnassus
  3. Hunted his howling host, his Thyiads with tresses dishevelled.
  4. Then with contending troops from all their city outflocking
  5. Gladly the Delphians hailed their God with smoking of altars.
  6. Often in death-full war and bravest of battle, or Mavors
  7. Or rapid Triton's Queen or eke the Virgin Rhamnusian,
  8. Bevies of weaponed men exhorting, proved their presence.
  9. But from the time when earth was stained with unspeakable scandals
  10. And forth fro' greeding breasts of all men justice departed,