Book VIII, Epigram 66 (Ker)

To Augustus bring, ye Camenae, pious incense and victims on behalf of your Silius. Lo! by a son's consulship Caesar, our chief and only ward, bids the twice six axes return, and the door of the poet sire resound to the lictor's noble staff.' Yet this remains for his joy to wish for, the blessed purple of a third consul. Though to Pompeius the senate, to his son-in-law Caesar, gave sacred honours, and peaceful Janus thrice enrolled their names, yet thus would Silius rather reckon repeated consulships.