You'll dine well with me, Fabullus, in a few days, with the Gods' favour - if you bring with you a good big dinner and a pretty girl and wine and salt and all the laughs. If you bring these things, I tell you, dear friend, you'll dine well, because your Catullus's purse is full of cobwebs. In return you'll have my unmixed love and also something even sweeter and lovelier: I'll give you the perfume that the Venuses and Cupids gave my girl, and once you smell it, Fabullus, you'll beg the Gods to make you all nose. Catullus, Poems 13 "To Fabullus" 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.