Letter 7002: Nectar, wine, food, clothing, learning, resources —

To Gogo, When He Invited Me to Dinner Nectar, wine, food, clothing, learning, resources — with your lavish gifts, Gogo, you are enough for me. You are a flowing Cicero, you are our own Apicius: you satisfy me with words on one side, and feed me with food on the other. But grant me pardon now: I rest with my belly swelling from beef, for a war breaks out in the stomach if mixed meat rumbles. Here, where the ox reclines, I think the chicken and goose will flee: the fury of horns and wings will not be equally matched. And now I close my drowsy eyes in sleep — for my sluggish verses prove that sleep is master.

II Ad eundem cum me rogaret ad cenam Nectar vina cibus vestis doctrina facultas – muneribus largis tu mihi, Gogo, sat es; tu refluus Cicero, tu noster Apicius extas: hinc satias verbis, pascis et inde cibis. sed modo da veniam: bubla turgente quiesco, nam fit lis uteri, si caro mixta fremat. hic, ubi bos recubat, fugiet puto pullus et anser: cornibus et pinnis non furor aequus erit. et modo iam somno languentia lumina claudo: nam dormire meum carmina lenta probant.