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Title: The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
Author: Caius Valerius Catullus
Translator: Richard Burton
Leonard Smithers
Release Date: March 3, 2007 [EBook #20732]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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The
Carmina
of
Caius Valerius Catullus
Now first completely Englished into Verse
and Prose, the Metrical Part by Capt.
Sir Richard F. Burton, R.C.M.G.,
F.R.G.S., etc., etc., etc., and the
Prose Portion, Introduction,
and Notes Explanatory
and Illustrative by
Leonard C.
Smithers
[Illustration]
_LONDON: MDCCCXCIIII: PRINTED FOR THE TRANSLATORS:
IN ONE VOLUME: FOR PRIVATE SUBSCRIBERS ONLY_
[Illustration]
DEAR MR. SMITHERS,
By every right I ought to choose you to edit and bring out Sir Richard Burton's translation of Catullus, because you collaborated with him on this work by a correspondence of many months before he died. If I have hesitated so long as to its production, it was because his notes