Book X, Epigram 36 (Ker)

Whatever Massilia's vile smoke-rooms store, whatever jar acquires its age from the fire, comes from you, Munna; to your wretched friends you consign over the sea, over long roads, deadly poison, and not at an easy price, but at one which would satisfy a crock of Falerniau or Setine, dear to its own cellars. Why you do not come to Rome after such an "interval this is, I think, your reason: you shun drinking your own wines.