Book V, Epigram 30 (Ker)

Vakro, whom the Sophoclean buskin would not disclaim, nor less to be looked up to for your Calabriaii lyre, put off your studies and let not the stage of the clever Catullus keep you busy, or Elegy with her trim locks; rather read poems, not to be despised in smoky December, which are sent you in their appropriate month. But perhaps it seems to you, Varro, more suitable and better to lose your Saturnalian nuts.