Book IV, Epigram 31 (Ker)

Seeing that you wish to be mentioned and read of in my poems, and that honour you deem to be something, may I perish, but the idea is one most pleasant to me; and I wish to include you in my writings. But you have a name, given you by your hard-hearted mother, which was laid upon you when the sister Muses' fountain was unkind, and which neither Melpomene nor Polyhymnia could utter, nor kindly Calliope, with Phoebus' aid. So assume for yourself some name the Muses like: it is not pretty to be always saying "Hippodame."