Social Commentaries
Carmen LXXIX (Cornish)
Translated by F. W. Cornish (Loeb, 1913) · From The Poems of Catullus (Loeb, 1913)
Social Commentaries
Lesbius is a pretty boy—why not? since Lesbia likes him better than you, Catullus, with all your kin. But this pretty boy would sell Catullus and all his kin if he could find three acquaintances to vouch for him.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen LXXIX (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/185/.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen LXXIX (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/185/.
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