Book VI, Epigram 19: Ad Posthumum Causidicum

No action of battery,
Of murder, or of poyson, I
Pursue: but of three Kids bereft
I doe accuse my Neighbour's theft.
The Judge requires how I it know:
Thou tell'st th' Apulian overthrow,
The Pontick war, and perjury
Of Hnibal's rash cruelty,
Scylla and Marius, Mutius wrath,
With open mouth, and spead armes both.
Now Posthumus I prethee tell
At last where I my Kids may smell.