Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- 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?
- Ravished; (alas and alas!) of our life thou cruellest cruel
- Venom, (alas and alas!) plague of our friendship and pest.
- Yet must I now lament that lips so pure of the purest
- Damsel, thy slaver foul soiled with filthiest kiss.
- But ne'er hope to escape scot free; for thee shall all ages
- Know, and what thing thou be, Fame, the old crone, shall declare.