Social Commentaries
Carmen XXXIII (Cornish)
Translated by F. W. Cornish (Loeb, 1913) · From The Poems of Catullus (Loeb, 1913)
Social Commentaries
Cleverest of all clothes-stealers at the baths, father Vibennius and you his profligate son,... off with you into banishment and the dismal regions, since the father's plunderings are known to all the world.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen XXXIII (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/142/.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen XXXIII (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/142/.
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