jan 1, 100 - Martialis "Epigrams"

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§ 3.74 TO GARGILIANUS:
With the psilothrum you make sleek your face, with the dropax your bald head. Are you afraid of the barber, Gargilianus? How will your nails fare? — for certainly you cannot pare them by means of resin or Venetian clay. Cease, if you have any modesty left, to disgrace your miserable head, Gargilianus: leave such things for the other sex.

"TO THE BANKS OF ALTINUM AND AQUILEIA: You banks of Altinum, that rival the rural beauties of Baiae, and you wood that saw the fall of the thunder-stricken Phaeton; you Sola, fairest of the Dryads, who were taken to wife by the Faun of Antenor's land near the Euganean lake; and you, Aquileia, who delight in Ledaean Timavus, at the spot where Cyllarus drank of your seven streams: You shall be the haven and the resting-places of my old age, if my retirement be at my own disposal" (Martial, Epigrams, 4.25)

"Or has your wool counted the mouths of the divided Timavus, of which the affectionate Cyllarus, now numbered with the stars, once drank" (Martial, Epigrams, 8.28)

"THE PIKE: The woolly pike swims at the mouth of the Euganean Timavus, fattening on sweet water mixed with salt" (Martial, Epigrams, 13.89)

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