Book III, Epigram 69 (Ker)

Because you write all your epigrams in decent language, and in your poems no obscenity is found, I admire, I applaud; nothing is more chaste than you of all men; but no page of mine is without wantonness. These then let naughty youths and girls of easy virtue read, these any old sire, and he too one whom his mistress tortures. But your language, Cosconius, woi-thy of respect and chaste as it is, should be read by boys and virgins.