Analysis of Ad Fabullium. Catul. Lib. I. Ep. 13.
Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657
AD FABULLUM. CATUL. LIB. I. EP. 13.
Caenabis bene, mi Fabulle, apud me
Paucis, si dii tibi favent, diebus;
Si tecum attuleris bonam atque magnam
Caenam, non sine candida puella,
Et vino, et sale, et omnibus cachinnis.
Haec si, inquam, attuleris, Fabulle noster,
Caenabis bene: nam tui Catulli
Plenus sacculus est aranearum.
Sed, contra, accipies meros amores,
Seu quod suavius elegantiusve est:
Nam unguentum dabo, quod meae puellae
Donarunt Veneres Cupidinesque;
Quod tu cum olfacies, deos rogabis,
Totum te faciant, Fabulle, nasum.
Fabullus, I will treat you handsomely
Shortly, if the kind gods will favour thee.
If thou dost bring with thee a del'cate messe,
An olio or so, a pretty lass,
Brisk wine, sharp tales, all sorts of drollery,
These if thou bringst (I say) along with thee,
You shall feed highly, friend: for, know, the ebbs
Of my lank purse are full of spiders webs;
But then again you shall receive clear love,
Or what more grateful or more sweet may prove:
For with an ointment I will favour thee
My Venus's and Cupids gave to me,
Of which once smelt, the gods thou wilt implore,
Fabullus, that they'd make thee nose all ore.
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Metre | 111111 1101111 111111 111111 1111001 111111001 111111 110111 11011 110111 111101 111111 111 111111 11111 11111100 101011111 1111110111 11110101 11111111 1111110111 1111011101 1111111101 1101110111 1111011111 111101111 11010111 1111011101 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,150 |
Words | 199 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14, 14 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 296 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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