Book VI, Epigram 47 (Ker)

Nymph that, welcomed to my Stella's house, glidest with thy pure spring and enterest beneath its master's jewelled halls, whether Numa's spouse sent thee from Trivia's grots, or thou comest, the ninth of the Camenae, Marcus with this vii'gin porker acquits him to thee of his vow made because in sickness he quaffed thy stream by stealth. Be thou content to-day with my fault, and grant me without scathe the delights of thy spring: may my thirst be again without harm!