Book V, Epigram 51 (Ker)

That fellow who has his left hand weighted with documents, round whom a smooth-cheeked band of shorthand-writers crowds, who, when note-books and letters are offered to him on this side and on that, lends them a severe countenance, looking like a very Cato, and Tully, and Brutus! — that fellow cannot bring out, even though the fiddle-strings forced him, a "How d'ye do?" in Latin, a xa'Pe m Greek. If you think I am inventing that, let us greet him.