Carmina

Catullus

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

Gallus has brothers, one of whom has a most charming spouse, the other a charming son. Gallus is a nice man: for he joins together their sweet loves, so that the nice girl beds with the nice boy. Gallus is a foolish man not to see that he is himself a husband who as an uncle shows how to cuckold an uncle.