Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- Would I were only healed and shed this fulsome disorder.
- Oh Gods, grant me this boon unto my piety due!
- Rufus, trusted as friend by me, so fruitlessly, vainly,
- (Vainly? nay to my bane and at a ruinous price!)
- Hast thou cajoled me thus, and enfiring innermost vitals,
- Ravished the whole of our good own'd by wretchedest me?