Book VII, Epigram 29 (Ker)

Thestylus, the dear torment of Voconius Victor, O boy better known than any in all the world, so may you, even now with your shorn locks, be beautiful and dear, and no maiden be pleasing to your bard — lay aside awhile your master's learned books while I read some small verses to your Victor. Even to Maecenas, although Maro was singing of Alexis, still was Marsus' dusk Melaenis known.