“Quintus loves Thais.” What Thais is that?
“Why, Thais the one-eyed, who—” Who?
Well, I was aware
She’d lost one of her pair,
But I didn’t know he had lost two.
TO LINUS
You ask what I grow on my Sabine estate.
A reliable answer is due.
I grow on that soil—
Far from urban turmoil—