Book II, Epigram 57 (Ker)

This fellow, whom you observe languidly wandering; who, in an amethystine gown, parts the crowd in the middle of the Saepta; whom my Publius does not outshine with his mantle, not Cordus himself, A in cloaks; whom a throng of clients in togas and of long-haired slaves attends, and whose sedan has new blinds and straps — this fellow has only just now with difficulty pawned for eighteenpence, at Cladus' counter, a ring to get a dinner!