Carmina
Catullus
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.
- Lesbius is beauty-man: why not? when Lesbia wills him
- Better, Catullus, than thee backed by the whole of thy clan.
- Yet may that beauty-man sell all his clan with Catullus,
- An of three noted names greeting salute he can gain.
- How shall I (Gellius!) tell what way lips rosy as thine are
- Come to be bleached and blanched whiter than wintry snow,