Book XI, Epigram 4 (Ker)

Ye sacred symbols and native gods of Phrygia, whom Troy's heir chose to rescue rather than Laomedon's wealth doomed to the fire, and thou, Jupiter, now for the first time depicted in everlasting gold, and thou, sister and daughter — all his own — of the Almighty Sire, and thou, Janus, who for the third time now addest Nerva's name to the annals of the purple, 'tis to you I pray with pious utterance. This our Chief preserve ye all, preserve ye the Senate; by its Prince's pattern may it live, he by his own!