Social Commentaries
Carmen LXXX (Cornish)
Translated by F. W. Cornish (Loeb, 1913) · From The Poems of Catullus (Loeb, 1913)
What reason can I give, Gellius, why those ruddy lips become whiter than snow when you rise in the morning or the eighth hour awakes you from your soft siesta in the long hours of the day? Something there is assuredly: is the gossip true that you are given to vice? So it is assuredly: the signs attest it.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen LXXX (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/186/.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen LXXX (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/186/.
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