Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- Nor can I (Goddesses!) hide in what things Allius sent me
- Aid, forbear to declare what was the aidance he deigned:
- Neither shall fugitive Time from centuries ever oblivious
- Veil in the blinds of night friendship he lavisht on me.
- But will I say unto you what you shall say to the many
- Thousands in turn, and make paper, old crone, to proclaim
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- And in his death become noted the more and the more,
- Nor let spider on high that weaves her delicate webbing
- Practise such labours o'er Allius' obsolete name.
- For that ye weet right well what care Amathúsia two-faced
- Gave me, and how she dasht every hope to the ground,
- Whenas I burnt so hot as burn Trinacria's rocks or
- Mallia stream that feeds Œtéan Thermopylae;
- Nor did these saddened eyes to be dimmed by assiduous weeping
- Cease, and my cheeks with showers ever in sadness be wet.
- E'en as from aëry heights of mountain springeth a springlet
- Limpidest leaping forth from rocking felted with moss,
- Then having headlong rolled the prone-laid valley downpouring,
- Populous region amid wendeth his gradual way,