C. Valerius Catullus Carmina 89

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

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Gellius is thin: why not? He who lives with so good a mother, so healthy and so beauteous a sister, and who has such a good uncle, and a world-full of girl cousins, why would he cease to be skinny?

who if he touched nothing but what is not lawful to touch—you will find ample reason why he is skinny.

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. Smithers, Leonard Charles, prose translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894. (Modernized by Perseus.))

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Carmina Perseus (Catullus, Gaius Valerius. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus. Burton, Sir Richard Francis, translator. London, Printed for the Translators, 1894.) — 89 focus

ON GELLIUS.

Gellius is lean: Why not?For him so easy a mother

Lives, and a sister so boon, bonny and buxom to boot,

Uncle so kindly good and all things full of his lady-

Cousins, how can he cease leanest of lankies to be?

Albeit, touch he naught save that whose touch is a scandal,

Soon shall thou find wherefor he be as lean as thou like.

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ON GELLIUS.

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