This third addition to the games of Bacchus,
That the glad cottabus shall now be play'd
In honour of you, a most noble quintain—
All you who here are present twine your hands,
Holding the ball-shaped portion of your cups,
And, ere you let it go, let your eyes scan
The heaven that bends above you; watching well
How great a space your λάταγες may cover.
8. After this, Ulpian demanded a larger goblet to drink out of, quoting these lines out of the same collection of Elegies—
Pouring forth hymns to you and me propitious,