Please, my sweet Ipsitilla

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by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE)

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Amabo, mea dulcis Ipsitilla

Language: Latin

Our translations: ENG SPA

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Amabo, mea dulcis Ipsitilla,
meae deliciae, mei lepores,
iube ad te veniam meridiatum.
Et si iusseris, illud adiuvato,
ne quis liminis obseret tabellam,

neu tibi lubeat foras abire,
sed domi maneas paresque nobis
novem continuas fututiones.
Verum si quid ages, statim iubeto:
nam pransus iaceo et satur supinus

pertundo tunicamque palliumque.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• C. Orff

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Text Authorship:

by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 32 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Michael Linton , "Amabo, mea dulcis Ipsitilla", first performed 2014 [ baritone and piano ], from Carmina Catulli, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl Orff (1895 - 1982), "[IX]. Amabo, mea dulcis Ipsitilla", 1940-43, published 1943, from cantata Catulli Carmina, no. 10 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Charles Héguin de Guerle) , "À Ipsithilla", first published 1837
SPA Spanish (Español) (Saúl Botero Restrepo) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Saúl Botero Restrepo

This text was added to the website: 2015-10-07
Line count: 11
Word count: 51

Please, my sweet Ipsitilla

Language: English after the Latin

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Please, my sweet Ipsitilla,
my joy, my delight,
ask me to join you for a siesta.
And if you do, see to it
that no one bars the door,

and don't think of going out,
but stay home and get ready for us
to screw nine times in a row.
But if you want to do anything, ask at once:
for, having had lunch, here I lie sated, flat on my back,

poking through my tunic and my cloak.

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Translations of titles:
"[IX]. Amabo, mea dulcis Ipsitilla" = "[IX]. Please, my sweet Ipsitilla"

Text Authorship:

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a text in Latin by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 32
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This text was added to the website: 2026-08-05
Line count: 11
Word count: 79