Book XI, Epigram 60 (Ker)

Is Phlogis or Chione the more fitted for dalliance, do you ask? More beautiful is Chione, but Phlogis has an itch; she has an itch that would rejuvenate Priam's powers and would not permit the aged Pylian ' to be aged; she has an itch that every man wishes his own mistress to have, one Criton can cure, not Hygeia. But Chione is impassive, nor does she encourage you by any wooing word: you would fancy she were away from you, or were a marble statue. Ye Gods, were it permitted to prevail on you to bestow so great a gift, and were ye willing to give a blessing so precious, you would make Phlogis to have this body that Chione has and Chione the itch that Phlosis has!