Book V, Epigram 31 (Ker)

See how the troupe leaps on the placid steers, and how complacently the bull accepts his appointed burden! This boy hangs on the tips of his horns, that one runs here and there along his shoulders and waves his weapons all over the ox. But the fierce beast stands unmoved and stark; the sand would not be safer; rather might the level ground cause a slip. Nor are their movements troubled; but of the award of the prize the boy is sure, the beast solicitous.