C. Valerius Catullus, Carmina, ON "THE ANNALS "

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ON "THE ANNALS "—A SO-CALLED POEM OF VOLUSIUS

Volusius' Annals, paper scum-bewrayed!
Fulfil that promise erst my damsel made;
Who vowed to Holy Venus and her son,
Cupid, should I return to her anon
And cease to brandish iamb-lines accurst,
The writ selected erst of bards the worst
She to the limping Godhead would devote
With slowly-burning wood of illest note.
This was the vilest which my girl could find
With vow facetious to the Gods assigned.
Now, 0 Creation of the azure sea,
Holy Idalium, Urian havenry
Haunting, Ancona, Cnidos' reedy site,
Amathus, Golgos, and the tavern hight
Durrachium-thine Adrian abode—
The vow accepting, recognize the vowed
As not unworthy and unhandsome naught.
But do ye meanwhile to the fire be brought,
That teem with boorish jest of sorry blade,
Volusius' Annals, paper scum-bewrayed.

Catullus. Carmina. Sir Richard Francis Burton. trans. London. For translator for private use. 1894.

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Commentary references to this page (22):
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 1
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 10
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 101
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 11
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 12
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 14
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 16
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 22
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 27
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 28
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 3
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 33
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 34
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 37
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 52
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 54
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 55
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 57
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 6
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 64
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 8
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 95
Cross-references to this page (4):
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Friends and foes.
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Metres.
- E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, Lesbia.
- Harper's, Dyrrhachium
Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page (2):
- Lewis & Short, dē-māno
- Lewis & Short, in-nuptus

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ON "THE ANNALS "—A SO-CALLED POEM OF VOLUSIUS

C. Valerius Catullus, Carmina
Sir Richard Francis Burton, Ed.