Martial, : the twelve books of Epigrams,.

BOOK NINE

* (CII
TO PHOEBUS
You return me my bond for four thousand: 'twere better
To lend me a thousand and leave me your debtor.
You must find some one else to oblige in that way;
The money's my own which I cannot repay.
* CIII
ON TWtO PAGE-BOYS
WHAT Leda in another swan's embrace
Bore you these pages twain so like in face?
In Hierus a Pollux we behold,
Asylus wears the mien of Castor bold,
And both have Helen's beauty. Had they been
In Sparta when small gifts made Venus queen,
Paris had cried-' No Tyndaris I need:
I choose instead this double Ganymede.'

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