Love
Carmen CIX (Cornish)
Translated by F. W. Cornish (Loeb, 1913) · From The Poems of Catullus (Loeb, 1913)
You promise to me, my life, that this love of ours shall be happy and last for ever between us. Ye great gods, grant that she may be able to keep this promise truly, and that she may say it sincerely and from her heart, so that it may be our lot to extend through all our life this eternal compact of hallowed friendship.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen CIX (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/212/.
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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. “Carmen CIX (Cornish).” Translated by F. W. Cornish. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/catullus/212/.
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