| Line | Latin text | English translation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cenabis bene, mi Fabulle, apud me | You will dine well, my Fabullus, with me |
| 2 | paucis, si tibi di favent, diebus | in a few days, if the gods favor you, |
| 3 | si tecum attuleris bonam atque magnam | if with you will have brought a good and great |
| 4 | cenam, non sine candida puella | meal, not without a fair-skinned girl |
| 5 | et vino et sale et omnibus cachinnis | and wine and wit and all loud laughter. |
| 6 | Haec si, inquam, attuleris, venuste noster, | If these, I say, you will have brought, our charming friend, |
| 7 | cenabis bene; nam tui Catulli | you will dine well, for the purse of your Catullus |
| 8 | plenus sacculus est aranearum. | is full of cobwebs. |
| 9 | Sed contra accipies meros amores | But in exchange you will receive pure love |
| 10 | seu quid suavius elegantiusve est: | or whatever is more sweet or more elegant: |
| 11 | nam unguentum dabo, quod meae puellae | for I will give perfume, which to my girl |
| 12 | donarunt Veneres Cupidinesque, | Venuses and Cupids have given, |
| 13 | quod tu cum olfacies, deos rogabis, | (which) when you will smell (it), you will ask the gods, |
| 14 | totum ut te faciant, Fabulle, nasum. | to make you, Fabullus, all nose. |