Book VI, Epigram 10 (Ker)

When for some poor thousands, as it chanced, I was praying Jupiter, "He will give them," he said, "who gave me temples." Temples, 'tis true, he gave to Jupiter, but to me he gave no thousands; alas! ashamed am I to have asked so few of Jove! '6 Yet how little severe was he, how unclouded by anger! With a look how calm had he read my petition! Such his guise when he bestows diadems on suppliant Dacians, and goes and returns along Capitoline ways. Tell me, I pray, tell me, thou Maid, our Thunderer's confidant, if with such a face he denies, with what is he wont to give? Thus I: so briefly Pallas, laying aside her shield, answered me: "That which has not yet been given, thinkest thou, O foolish one, has been refused?"