Carmina

Catullus

Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Smithers, Leonard Charles, prose translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.

If, Cominius, by the judgment of the people your white hair made filthy by unclean practices should perish, to be sure I do not doubt that first your tongue, hostile to goodness, cut out, will be given to the greedy vulture, the crow will gorge your eyes, gouged out, down his black throat, the dogs will gorge down your entrails, the wolves your remaining members.