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DEDICATION TO CORNELIUS NEPOS

Now smooth’d to polish due with pumice dry

Whereto this lively booklet now give I?

To thee ( Cornelius!); for wast ever fain

To deem my trifles somewhat boon contain;

E’en when thou single ’mongst Italians found

Daredst all periods in three Scripts expound

Learned (by Jupiter!) elaborately.

Then take thee whatso in this booklet be,

Such as it is, whereto O Patron Maid

To live down Ages lend thou lasting aid!

Carmina. C. Valerius Catullus. Leonard C. Smithers (Translator), Sir Richard Francis Burton (Translator). London. 1894.

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Carmina (English) (Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.)

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Carmina Perseus (Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Smithers, Leonard Charles, prose translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894. (Modernized by Perseus.)) — 1 focus

To whom inscribe my charming new book—just out and with ashen pumice polished? Cornelius, to you! for you used to deem my triflings of account,

and at a time when you alone of Italians dared unfold the ages’ abstract in three chronicles—learned, by Jupiter!—and most laboriously written. Therefore take this booklet, such as it is, and, O Virgin Patroness,

may it outlive generations more than one.

C. Valerius Catullus Carmina 1

Leonard C. Smithers (Translator), Sir Richard Francis Burton (Translator)

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