Social Commentaries
Carmen XXVI (Cornish)
Translated by F. W. Cornish (Loeb, 1913) · From The Poems of Catullus (Loeb, 1913)
Social Commentaries
Furius, my little farm stands exposed not to the blasts of Auster nor Favonius nor fierce Boreas or Apheliotes, but to a call of fifteen thousand two hundred sesterces. A wind that brings horror and pestilence!
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen XXVI (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/136/.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen XXVI (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/136/.
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