Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- Who could better avail zone of the virgin to loose.
- 'Sooth, of egregious sire for piety wondrous, thou tellest,
- Who in the heart of his son lief was . . . !
- Yet professed herself not only this to be knowing,
- Brixia-town that lies under the Cycnean cliff,
- Traversed by Mella-stream's soft-flowing yellow-hued current,
- Brixia, Vérona's mother, I love for my home.