The Poems of the Catullus by Mithie, James - 1969: A bilingual edition

"Catullus is fiendishly hard to translate. To bring him alive needs stringent discipline and love of the work: here they are ... "Ave" I say to Catullus and his brilliant translator. There will be no "vale" to this book for a very long time." Patric Dickinson (The Sunday Times, London)

"... a performance of immense lucidity and pace, following the sense of the original with unerring accuracy and discernment. He catches the dirty rancour of the shorter pieces as finely as the formal splendours of the longer narratives." Alan Brownjohn, New Statesman

" … it is the first time that we have been able to read the bawdiest of Catullus's erotic verses cast into honest English rather than evaded in some other tongue." Sarah Preston, Sunday Telegraph (London)