Catullus 13
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- totum nasum: becoming all nose
My dear Fabullus, you will dine well at my house in a few days (if the gods favor you), and if you bring with you a great and good dinner, not without a pure girl and wine and salt and all the jokes. I say: if you bring these, our charming one, you will dine well—for your Catullus' purse is full of cobwebs. But in return you will receive pure love or anything there is very sweet and elegant: for I will give perfume, which loves and charms gave to my girl, and when you smell it, you will ask the gods that they make you, oh Fabullus, total nose.</poem>
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.</poem>
