Book VIII, Epigram 80 (Ker)

Thou restorest to us, Caesar, the wonders of our honoured grandsires' age, and lettest not the times of old die, now that the ancient fashions of the Latin arena are renewed and valour fights with more natural hand. So also for the old-world fanes is kept their honour while thou art Governor, and the Cof under a Jove so worshipped keeps its sanctity; ' so, while thou dost found the new, thou bringest back, Augustus, the former things: what is, and what was, are owed to thee!