Book XI, Epigram 20 (Ker)

Read six wanton verses of Caesar Augustus, you spiteful fellow, who with a sour face read words of Latin: "Because Antony handles Glaphyra, Fulvia has appointed this penalty for me, that I, too, should handle her. I to handle Fulvia? What if Manius were to implore me to treat him as a Ganymede? Am I to do it? I trow not, if I be wise. ' Either handle me or let us fight,' she says. And what that my person is dearer to me than my very life .'' Let the trumpets sound." You justify for certain my sprightly little books, Augustus, who know how to speak with Roman bluntness.