Carmina

Catullus

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

  1. An of a goat-stink damned from armpits fusty one suffer,
  2. Or if a crippling gout worthily any one rack,
  3. 'Tis that rival o' thine who lief in loves of you meddles,
  4. And, by a wondrous fate, gains him the twain of such ills.
  5. For that, oft as he . . . , so oft that penance be two-fold;
  6. Stifles her stench of goat, he too is kilt by his gout.