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