Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. When with her handmaids alone, these her flagitious deeds,
  2. Citing fore-cited names for that she never could fancy
  3. Ever a Door was endow'd either with earlet or tongue.
  4. Further she noted a wight whose name in public to mention
  5. Nill I, lest he upraise eyebrows of carroty hue;
  6. Long is the loon and large the law-suit brought they against him
  7. Touching a child-bed false, claim of a belly that lied.