Catullus 13

1. Cenabis bene, mi Fabulle, apud me

2. paucis, si tibi di favent, diebus

3. si tecum attuleris bonam atque magnam

4. cenam, non sine candida puella

5. et vino et sale et omnibus cachinnis.

You will eat well, my friend Fabullus, at my home in a few days, if the gods favor you. If you will bring with you a good and great dinner, not without a dazzling girl and wine and wit/salt and all sorts of laughter.

6. haec si, inquam attuleris, venuste noster,

7. cenabis bene; nam tui Catulli

8. plenus sacculus est aranearum.

If I say you will have brought these things, my charming little friend, you will eat well; for the little sack of your friend Catullus is full of cobwebs.

9. sed contra accipies meros amores

10. seu quid suavius elegantiusve est:

11. nam unguentum dato, quod meae puellae

12. donarunt Veneres Cupidinesque,

13. quod tu cum olfacies, deos rogabis,

14. totum ut te faciant, Fabulle, nasum.

But in return you will receive pure love, or something that is more delightful or elegant: for I will give you a perfume, which the Venuses and Cupids gave to my girl, When you will smell it, you will ask the gods to make you entirely nose, Fabullus.

An indirect command

rogabis, totum ut te faciant —» you will ask the gods to make you

Verbs in the future tense

1. cenabis —» you will eat

2. dabo —» I will give

3. accipies —» you will have brought

4. rogabis —» you will ask

Comparative adjectives

1. suavius —» more delightful

2. elegantiusve —» more elegant

An indirect object

puellae —» she is receiving the perfume from the gods

An ablative of time when

diebus —» days

A syncopated verb

donarunt —» dona[ve]runt

A demonstrative pronoun

haec

A future more vivid construction

si tecum attuleris bonam atque magnam cenam —» If you will bring a good and great dinner

A noun in the vocative

Fabulle

A genitive of possession

Catulle

Noun-adjective agreement

1. mi Fabulle —» my Fabullus

2. bonam cenam —» good dinner

3. magnam cenam —» great dinner

4. omnibus cachinnis —» all the laughter

5. meros amores —» pure love

6. meae puellae —» my girl

7. paucis diebus —» a few days

8. candida puella —» shining girl

9. plenus sacculum —» full sack

10. totum nasum —» entirely nose

Polysyndeton

non sine candida puella et vino et sale et omnibus cachinnis —» not without a dazzling girl and wine and wit/salt and all sorts of laughter.

Litotes

non sine —» not without

A poetic plural

venuste noster —» my charming little friend