Book IX, Epigram 65 (Ker)

Alcides, worthy now to be owned by the Latin Thunderer, after that thou wearest the features fair of Caesar our god, if thine had been then that face and guise when savage monsters yielded to thy arms, the nations had not seen thee the serf of the despot of Argos, and enduring a cruel thrall, but thou wouldst have commanded Eurystheus; nor would false Lichas have brought to thee the guileful gift of Nessus; without the ordeal of Oeta's pyre wouldst thou unvexed have won that heaven of thy Sire supreme which thy penance gave thee; nor wouldst thou have drawn out the wool of a haughty mistress,' nor have viewed Styx and the Tartarean hound. Now to thee is Juno kind, now thy Hebe loves thee; now, should she see thee, the nymph will send Hylas back.