Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. First let me note that the maid to us committed (assert they)
  2. Was but a fraud: her mate never a touch of her had,
  3. ---
  4. But that a father durst dishonour the bed of his first-born,
  5. Folk all swear, and the house hapless with incest bewray;