Book XI, Epigram 5 (Ker)

As great is thy reverence for right and justice, Caesar, as was Numa's, but Numa was poor. 'Tis a hard task this, not to sacrifice manners to wealth, and, though thou hast surpassed many a Croesus, to be a Numa. Were our sires of old, mighty names, to return, were it allowed to empty the Elysian grove, to thee Camillus, liberty's unconquered champion, will pay his court, gold at thy giving will Fabricius accept, in thee as captain will Brutus be glad, to thee bloody Sulla will resign his power when he shall seek to lay it down; and thee the Great Captain, allied with Caesar, only a private citizen, will love, and Crassus' will bestow on thee all his wealth. Cato,' too, himself, were he called back to return from the nether shades of Dis, will be Caesar's partizan.