Social Commentaries
Carmen XC (Cornish)
Translated by F. W. Cornish (Loeb, 1913) · From The Poems of Catullus (Loeb, 1913)
From the unholy commerce of Gellius and his mother let a Magian be born, and learn the Persian art of soothsaying; for a Magian must be the offspring of mother and son, if the unnatural religion of the Persians is true, so that their child may worship the gods with acceptable hymns, whilst melting the fat caul in the altar flame.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen XC (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/194/.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen XC (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/194/.
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