Book V, Epigram 23 (Ker)

You were clad, Bassus, in the colour of grass so long as the rules of seating in the theatre were unheard. Now that our serene Censor's care has bid them revive, and knights more genuine obey Oceanus, 'tis never, but in robes steeped in scarlet or dyed with purple, that you are resplendent, and you fancy that thereby you cheat him! No mantles, Bassus, are reckoned at four hundred thousand sesterces, or else my Cordus before all men would have his knighthood.