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You will feast well with me, my Fabullus, in a few days, if the gods favour you,
provided you bring here with you a good and great feast, not forgetting a
radiant girl and wine and wit and all kinds of laughter. Provided, I say, you
bring them here, our charming friend, you will feast well: for your Catullus'
purse is full with cobwebs. But in return you will receive a pure love, or what
is sweeter or more elegant: for I will give you an unguent which the Venuses and
Cupids gave to my girl, which, when you smell it, you will entreat the gods to
make you, Fabullus, all Nose!
Catullus. The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus. Leonard C. Smithers. London. Smithers. 1894.
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