Book V, Epigram 44 (Ker)

What has happened, I ask, what has happened suddenly that, when I asked you, Dento, to dinner, four times (who would believe it?) you made bold to refuse? Moreover, you don't even look back, but fly, when I follow you, from me whom but lately in warm baths, and in theatres, and in every dining-room you used to look for. So it is: you have been captured by a richer dinner, and a bigger kitchen has carried off the dog! Presently — and that soon — when you are known and discarded, and the wealthy eating-house is sick of you, to the bones of the old dinner you will return.