Book X, Epigram 24 (Ker)

Mv natal kalends of March, day fairer to me than all the kalends, on which girls, too, send me a gift, for the fifty-seventh time cakes and this censer of incense I lay on your altars. To these years — but so that it be expedient on my asking — add, I pray, twice nine years, that I, not as yet dull with too protracted age, but when life's three courses are run, may reach the groves of the Elysian dame. Beyond this Nestor's span I will not crave even a day more.