Book VII, Epigram 44 (Ker)

Here, Ovidius, is your Maximus Caesonius, whose lineaments the living wax still preserves. He it was Nero condemned; but you dared to condemn Nero, and to follow the fortunes of a banished man, not your own: over Scylla's seas you went, that exile's high-souled comrade, you who had lately refused to be comrade of a consul. If those names shall live which are entrusted to my pages, and if it may be that I survive my own ashes, this shall the men of to-day and of to-morrow hear, that you were to him all that he was to his Seneca.