Book X, Epigram 66 (Ker)

Who was he, I ask, so harsh, who was he so insolent that bade 3'ou, Theopompus, become a cook? Is this a face any man endures to mar with black kitchen-soot, these the locks he pollutes with greasy flame? Who in your stead will hold the ladles, or who the crystal cups? From whose hand shall the blended Falernian take sweeter savour? If such an end as that await attendants so heavenly-bright, let Jupiter now employ his Ganymede as cook.