Social Commentaries
Book IV, Epigram 25 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Altinum's shores that vie with Baiae's villas, and the wood that saw the pyre of Phaethon, and the maid Sola, fairest of Dryads, who wed with Paduan Faunus by the Euganean meres, and thou, Aquileia, blest with Timavus honoured by Leda's sons, where Cyllarus quaffed its sevenfold waters — ye shall be the refuge and harbour of my old age, if I be free to choose the place of my repose.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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