Book III, Epigram 91 (Ker)

While a discharged soldier was returning to the h'elds of his native Ravenna, he joined on the way Cybele's sexless company. Close companion was his master's fugitive slave, Achillas, a boy renowned for beauty and for wanton ways. This those unfruitful men perceived: they ask him in what part of the bed he lay. But that boy, too, perceived the guile; he lied, they believed him. They seek their slumber after their wine; straightway that harmful throng snatch the steel and mutilate the old sire who lay in his part of the bed; for the boy was safe in the ward of the inner side. Fame hath it that of old a hind took a virgin's place; but now part of a man took the place of a stag.