Book IV, Epigram 39 (Ker)

You have collected every kind of silver plate, and you alone possess Myron's antique works of art, you alone the handiwork of Praxiteles and of Scopas, you alone the chased product of Phidias' graving chisel, you alone the results of Mentor's toil. Nor do you lack genuine works of Grattius, or dishes overlaid with Gallician gold, or pieces in relief from ancestral tables. Nevertheless I wonder why, amid all your silver plate, you, Charinus, have nothing chaste.