Catullus 13

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Catullus 13

1 Latin Text

[edit] Latin Text

Cenabis bene, mi Fabulle, apud me
paucis, si tibi di favent, diebus,
si tecum attuleris bonam atque magnam
cenam, non sine candida puella
et vino et sale et omnibus cachinnis.
Haec si, inquam, attuleris, venuste noster,
cenabis bene; nam tui Catulli
plenus sacculus est aranearum.
Sed contra accipies meros amores,
seu quid suavius elegantiusve est:
nam unguentum dabo, quod meae puellae
donarunt Veneres Cupidinesque;
quod tu cum olfacies, deos rogabis
totum ut te faciant, Fabulle, nasum.

[edit] English Translation

You will dine well, my Fabullus, at my house
in a few days (if the gods favor you),
and if you bring with you a nice big
dinner, not without a pretty girl
and wine and wit and laughs for everyone.
I say: if you bring these, our charming one,
you will dine well—for the little purse
of your Catullus is full of cobwebs.
But in return you will receive wondrous love
(or something more elegant and more delightful):
for I will give you an oil, which onto my girl
Venuses and Cupids have bestowed;
and when you smell it, you will ask the gods
to make you, Fabullus, nothing but nose.

[edit] Literal (AP) Translation

You will dine well, my Fabullus, at my place within a few days, if the gods favor you, if you will have brought a big and good dinner with you, not without a bright girl and wine and wit and with all (your) loud laughter. If you will have brought these things, I say, our charming fellow, you will dine well; for your Catullus' little purse is full of spider webs. But in return you will receive pure love, or if there is anything sweeter or more elegant: for I will give you perfume, which Venus and Cupid gave to my girlfriend; which when you will smell, you will ask the gods that they make you a total nose, Fabullus.