Social Commentaries
Book VIII, Epigram 39 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Large enough to hold the revels of the Palatine board and its ambrosial feasts, was no place heretofore; here it beseems thee, Germanicus, to quaff thy nectar divine, and cups blent by Ganymede's hand. May it be late, I beseech thee, that thou dost consent to be the Thunderer's guest; but do thou, Jupiter, if thou art impatient, come hither thyself.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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